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[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>> thunar-vfs now chdir()'s when listing folder contents to avoid inode
>>> lookups for each and every file. Afterwards thunar-vfs chdir() to "/" to
>>> avoid blocking a folder removal with certain file systems (i.e. smbfs).
>>
>> That sounds pretty evil.  A library is changing the app's working
>> directory out from under it?  Boooooo!
> 
> Yes, I refused to do that for a long time. But since it really saves
> expensive inode lookups, it's worth it, and I thought that when
> launching applications, we all pass a sane working directory.

Are you accusing me of sanity?  How dare you!

>>> Looks like xfdesktop doesn't specify a working directory when launching
>>> applications from the menu.
>>
>> It uses xfce_exec(), so it can't.
> 
> Meh, why doesn't xfce_exec() have a working_directory parameter.

Blame Jasper... he wrote it ^_^

	-brian

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