[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #605: Simfactory does not find the right 'path' for symlinked cactus directories

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#605: Simfactory does not find the right 'path' for symlinked cactus directories
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  Reporter:  knarf       |       Owner:  eschnett           
      Type:  defect      |      Status:  review             
  Priority:  minor       |   Milestone:  ET_2011_10         
 Component:  SimFactory  |     Version:  development version
Resolution:              |    Keywords:                     
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Comment (by barry.wardell):

 Replying to [comment:4 eschnett]:
 > Simfactory doesn't really use "chdir". There are a few chdir commands
 surrounding calls to external programs (e.g. before calling the
 runscript), and these should probably be replaced by explicit "cd"
 commands in the executed commands.
 >
 > That is, constructs such as
 > {{{
 >    orig = os.getcwd()
 >    chdir (somewhere)
 >    system "do-something"
 >    chdir (orig)
 > }}}
 > should be replaced by
 > {{{
 >    system "cd somewhere && do-somethig"
 > }}}
 > which are shorter, and where there is no chdir involved.

 In these cases, would it not be better to just use the cwd option to
 popen()?

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