On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Benjamin Franksen <
benjamin.frank...@helmholtz-berlin.de> wrote:

> Module System.Posix.Directory of the unix package defines
>
>   getWorkingDirectory :: IO FilePath
>   changeWorkingDirectory :: FilePath -> IO ()
>
> I believe the functionality is quite portable and not limited to unix-like
> systems. I know that e.g. Windows has chdir and getcwd. Module Filesystem
> of
> the system-fileio package has
>

The functionality is similar but different, insofar as Windows still has
legacy drive paths and the current directory is maintained separately for
each one; I would expect this to be exposed in a Windows version.

That said, there are already setCurrentDirectory and getCurrentDirectory in
System.Directory for portable versions.

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