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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: A "current directory" concept for Java...
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On 08/23/2014 11:32 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:

"I had a look at the classes/interfaces in java.(n)io, but couldn't
find such a class. Is it not there, or did I just miss it? "

>> It seems to me that a "process" might have a notion of a
>> "current directory". And that a file system "traverser"
>> might have its notion of a "current directory". But any
>> set of classes implementing a "virtual file system" wouldn't
>> need the concept of a "current directory". May be that there
>> is better place to "home" the abstraction.
>
> I'm afraid, I don't quite get the point of this nor your
> other two posts in this thread.
>

You snipped the paragraph to which I responded.

A class wrapping java.nio.file.Path, as you describe,
is an odd choice for placement of a method to change
a process' current working directory.

If you have a chdir, why not a chroot?
You may not need it, but if they were in a standard
library someone would.

Compare:
sun.nio.fs.AixFileSystem
sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystem
sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystem