Determine process current working directory

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on May 12, 2009 17:44:06

Proposal  
for addition of a new Process.cwd property returning the process
current working directory.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=51

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on May 12, 2009 08:51:04

the process path already provides this information, for cases where we are able to
retrieve the process path: 

        self.path = path
        self.cmdline = cmdline
        # if we have the cmdline but not the path, figure it out from argv[0]
        if cmdline and not path:
            self.path = os.path.dirname(cmdline[0])

Unless you're actually talking about current working directory even if a program is
using chdir() for example. If that's what you're referring to then I'm not sure we
can actually retrieve this information for all platforms.

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on May 12, 2009 09:01:25

Yes, I'm referring to your chdir() example, indeed it would probably be better this
be exposed as a method (Process.getcwd()) rather than a property.

I know Linux provides such information through /proc/[PID]/cwd, not sure about OS X
and FreeBSD.
I made a quick research but hadn't much luck so far.

Windows procexp provides this info under the name of "current directory" (left click
on a process -> image -> current directory) and I noticed it varies if process uses
chdir().
As for the BSD search I didn't had much luck here either.

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on May 12, 2009 13:22:33

Status: Accepted
Labels: Milestone-0.1.3

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on June 10, 2009 07:32:40

Useful links for the Windows implementation: 
http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=18972&KW 
http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14704 http://www.codeproject.com/KB/threads/GetNtProcessInfo.aspx

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on June 11, 2009 00:49:45

Implemented for Linux as r407 .

Status: Started
Labels: -Progress-0in4 Progress-1in4

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on June 15, 2009 13:43:49

Implemented for Windows in r410 .

Labels: -Progress-1in4 Progress-2in4

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on September 17, 2009 01:57:12

As it seems there's no way to determine this on OSX and FreeBSD I'm going to consider
it fixed.

Status: Fixed

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on March 02, 2013 03:49:17

Updated csets after the SVN -> Mercurial migration: r407 == revision 425705f68b0e r410 == revision 7cae8c3bbc17