Re: DOS/Windows-specific code: cli-cmds.c

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

>  * cli-cmds.c:shell_escape()
> 
>     #ifdef __DJGPP__
>       /* Make sure to return to the directory GDB thinks it is, in case the
> 	 shell command we just ran changed it.  */
>       chdir (current_directory);
>     #endif
> 
> This code is there because the current working directory is a global
> notion (as opposed to being private to each process on Posix
> systems).  Windows ports, at least the non-Cygwin ones, probably want
> this as well.  Suggestions how to test this, anyone?  Should we define
> a GLOBAL_CURDIR macro (zero by default)?


GDB, may its self, one day need some similar notion of current directory.

Consider a debug environment containing:

	o	core/lib-gdb
	o	a GUI/MI
	o	a CLI

Should the user entering CLI commands that change the GDB processes 
apparent directory affect the GUI?

	Andrew