Subject: Re: bug#75762: [shepherd] Confusion about relative file names

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:21:25 +0100

Hi Dariqq,

Dariqq <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Was reading through the shepherd manual and it seems to contain
> contradictory information regarding relative file names:
>
> In Chapter 3 ('herd' and 'shepherd') the manual reads
>
>> Since herd passes its current working directory to ‘shepherd’, you can pass relative file names without trouble.
>
> Chapter 3.2 (Invoking 'herd')
>
>> If you pass a file name as an ARG, it will be passed as-is to the Shepherd, thus if it is not an absolute name, it is local to the current working directory of ‘shepherd’, not to herd.
>
> So which one is it or is there something I am missing here?

The situation actually depends on the action you’re running.

Starting from 1a8d686b7fa617d9b1df33858957a240b7e11787, shepherd no
longer changes directory to the client’s directory.  So now it’s up to
its action to interpret file names as it wants.  We should update the
manual accordingly.

Did you have a specific action in mind though?

Ludo’.