The ability is still there in portable tmux.

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:33:41AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Sep 05 14:19:48, h...@stare.cz wrote:
> > Being a happy user of tmux on many other systems (thank you!)
> > I tried to compile tmux on this MacOSX 10.4.11, and have failed.
> > 
> > The problem is that osdep-darwin.c does not compile on 10.4.11
> > - it uses libproc which (people tell me) has only been introduced
> > in MacOSX 10.5 (Darwin 9) with DTrace.
> > 
> > Looking at the history of osdep-darwin.c, e.g.
> > http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tmux-code/ci/7360ff4496bfd159ac5935a18de675f067c375db/
> > http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tmux-code/ci/ad2cc63412d563f31b33df3204bb2070cb12f320/
> > I see that the "lowlevel" sysctl()'s have been
> > gradually replaced by libproc features.
> > This breaks osdep-darwin.c on older Macs
> > (such as my 10.4.11)
> > 
> > Temporarily, I have reverted to an older version of osdep-darwin.c
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=51A035A8.6090504%40gmail.com&forum_name=tmux-users
> > and live without the cwd functionality.
> > 
> > I tried to rewrite osdep_get_name() and osdep_get_cwd()
> > in the sysctl(CTL_KERN, KERN_PROC, ...) way
> > but I don't know the Darwin internals much;
> > I also tried to mimic osdep-openbsd.c
> > but Darwin lacks things such as KERN_PROC_CWD,
> > the daysaver of osdep-openbsd's osdep_get_cwd().
> > 
> > I am no expert on the nuanced differences between
> > the internals of various BSD-derived systems,
> > but I do believe that getting the cwd and comm
> > of a running process is something very fundamental
> > on all of them; not something that would require
> > DTrace's libproc.
> > 
> > So, before I start on a path I don't really know,
> > is there a way to change osdep-darwin to do it
> > the old primitive way, without proc_bsdshortinfo
> > and proc_vnodepathinfo and proc_pidinfo etc?
> 
> In the version of tmux that comes with
> current OpenBSD snapshots, the CWD functionality
> when opening new windows has been removed.
> Is osdep_get_cwd() used for something else?
> 
> 
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