[syslinux] [PATCH 1/1] COMBOOT API: Add get current working directory call to most

[H. Peter Anvin]

Gene Cumm wrote:
>>>
>> Yes, although that could be considered "out of scope".
>>
>> Extlinux is clearly the most challenging filesystem to deal with this
>> for, but other derivatives for Unix-like filesystems are likely to have
>> similar issues, and those might not even have the ".." directory entries
>> that even make it possible to recurse upward.
>>
>> The other alternative, of course, is to not rely on a cached inode
>> number but to store the initial root path by name in extlinux.sys.
>>
>>        -hpa
> 
> Based on this and the fact that EXTLINUX can understand . and ..,
> would it be better to initialize the CurrentDirName to "./" (which
> would be a correct value) until further development can be done?
> 

I think that makes sense in the interrim.

	-hpa