plumber - current directory

[Steve Simon]

Hi,

On native plan9 the plumber gets the current directory from /dev/wdir of the

window you plumbed in. how does it work in p9p? 

I am in the a situation where I can plumb absolute paths but plumbing

relative files always raises a query in 9term - annoying as the go compiler

always (rightly) prints relative paths.

is there some special code in rc to communicate with the plumber or is it done by

9term discovering the directory that the "foreground process" is in (in quotes as that could be hard to determine reliably I think).

thanks for any help,

-Steve

[Russ Cox]

It's pretty awful, but there is no clean channel I am aware of to communicate the working directory back to 9term. So what I did instead is that if you use label(1) (or awd) to maintain the window title, then 9term uses the directory from the window title as the current directory in plumbing requests. The label(1) man page has suggested shell configuration.

Best,
Russ

[Steve Simon]

great, thanks.

I understand the pain but this solves my problem nicely.

-Steve