running a command in a directory using std.process

[Benjamin Thaut]

Am 24.10.2013 19:03, schrieb Timothee Cour:
> +1
> this is a command use case. Further,relying on shell such as  cd subdir
> && foo is fragile: if it fails, we're not sure whether it's because it
> couldn't cd to subdir or because of foo.
>
> Woudl the following be as efficient?
> system_in_dir(string dir, string action){
> auto path=getcwd
> scope(exit)
>    chdir(path)
> chdir(dir)
> system(action)
> }
>

Well at least the windows API call CreateProcess already has a parameter 
which you can use to specify the working directory. Its just not exposed 
in the implementation of std.process. I don't know how things are on 
linux though.

Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut