Re: DOS/Windows-specific code: top.c

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > 
 >     * top.c:
 > 
 >     #ifdef __MSDOS__
 >     void
 >     do_chdir_cleanup (void *old_dir)
 >     {
 >       chdir (old_dir);
 >       xfree (old_dir);
 >     }
 >     #endif
 > 
 > See the next snippet.
 > 
 >     * top.c:gdb_init()
 >     
 >     #ifdef __MSDOS__
 >       /* Make sure we return to the original directory upon exit, come
 > 	 what may, since the OS doesn't do that for us.  */
 >       make_final_cleanup (do_chdir_cleanup, xstrdup (current_directory));
 >     #endif
 > 
 > This is the same issue as with cli-cmds.c:shell_escape(), and the same
 > solution will do here.
 > 
 > 
 >     * top.c:init_history()
 > 
 >     #ifdef __MSDOS__
 > 	  /* No leading dots in file names are allowed on MSDOS.  */
 > 	  history_filename = concat (current_directory, "/_gdb_history", NULL);
 >     #else
 > 	  history_filename = concat (current_directory, "/.gdb_history", NULL);
 >     #endif
 > `
 > 
 > Should we have a NO_LEADING_DOTS_IN_FILENAMES macro?
 > 

I am not familiar with the first issue. But the second one seems to
also be OK for filenames.h.

Elena