[ovs-dev] [PATCH 07/11] daemon-windows: Recognize --no-chdir option for windows.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 01:08:10PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:04:14AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> >> The option won't have any effect on the running of the daemon.
> >> Recognizing the option lets us avoid if else conditions in unit
> >> tests.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>
> >
> > The reason that Unix daemons chdir to the root, by default, is that a
> > process whose current directory is on some volume prevents that volume
> > from being unmounted (and on some Unix-like systems I think it also
> > prevents the directory from being removed).  Is either of those an issue
> > on Windows?  Should OVS chdir to the root (on all drives?) on Windows
> > also?
> 
> I did not test with mount/unmount on windows. But, you cannot delete a
> directory from which a program is invoked. chdir does solve that
> problem. But I can't seem to think of the correct "/" equivalent on
> windows (specially when I consider mounted shares etc). So I was
> hoping to not do anything here till I really need it.

OK.

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>