[syslinux] CHDIR Directive?

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/12/2012 06:00 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/12/2012 01:27 PM, Shao Miller wrote:
>> Perhaps it could be useful to have a "CHDIR" config-file directive?  I'm
>> thinking it'd override anything passed by config.c32.  I'm also thinking
>> it'd be a config-file-global, rather than a LABEL-specific, option. 
>> Then a
>> config-file could set its own working directory without using
>> config.c32 as
>> an intermediate step.  Does this seem like a reasonable feature to
>> have?  -
>> Shao
>>
>> P. S. Maybe this already exists and I haven't read about it.  If so, then
>> oops.
>>
> 
> The problem with CHDIR is that it makes it very hard to deal with the
> fact that it suddenly matters "when" a certain patch is interpreted. The
> reason this is currently mixed with the CONFIG directive is that that is
> a natural reset point anyway.
> 

s/patch/path/

	-hpa