[Coco] How can you make permanent directory changes in OS-9 ml programs?

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Robert,

What you are asking (to assign a changed directory to the parent shell process) is not possible through ordinary means.  Extraordinary measures would have to be taken to communicate that information back to the parent process.

Such an extraordinary measure would be to (a) change the directory in the process using I$ChgDir, (b) find the process descriptor of that process in system RAM, (c) copy the P$DIO bytes in the process descriptor, (c) locate the parent's process descriptor, then (d) write the P$DIO bytes copied earlier into the parent's process descriptor at its P$DIO location.

Best Regards,
Boisy G. Pitre

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On Sep 4, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Robert Gault wrote:

> I need to use I$ChgDir in an OS-9 ml program where the changes continue to exist after leaving the program. The only method I found that works is to exit the program with F$Chain where the chained program is Shell. That of course leaves the old shell running.
> 
> Is there a method that either kills the old shell or returns to the old shell with new paths intact?
> 
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