Re: Userland Lua - concerns with require

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:28:34PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> Am 28.10.10 11:57, schrieb Joerg Sonnenberger:
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 09:21:36AM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> >> After considerations, email exchange with the makers of Lua, and testing
> >> realword systems I think probably the best thing to do is to move the
> >> '.' parts to the end of the list:
> > [snip]
> >>
> >> I am a bit hesitant right now to remove the '.' entries completely, I am
> >> still trying to assess the consequences.  That said, I am open for (well
> >> reasoned) opinions.
> > 
> > How does the Lua loader deal with programs that call chdir(2) before loading
> > further modules? That's a practical issue especially for system
> > software.
> 
> You mean if '.' in the path refers to the CWD that was in place when the
> software or to the CWD after the chdir(2) call?

Yes. Is the LUA_PATH processing invariant under chdir operations?

Joerg