March 8, 2009
4:45 a.m.
Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
Torsten,
It could be up to the VM if we made it that way. There is a function call to get the system directory, and the VM can "just do that" vs. the image needing to have access to FFI/Alien to do so. Perhaps the other VMs could add something analogous, or just answer an empty string, vm path, whatever if their hosts are better designed than Windows (not that such a thing is imaginable... queue throat clearing .wav).
We could add that as part of the OSPlatform package and add a plugin returning platform specific "stuff". In Sophie we had packaged access to platform specific paths in an extra package using mostly FFI, but a plugin would be more sensible in the long run. Michael