diff --git a/core/io/backend/backend.factor b/core/io/backend/backend.factor
index 151dbc7df7..6bcd448385 100755
--- a/core/io/backend/backend.factor
+++ b/core/io/backend/backend.factor
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ! Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Slava Pestov.
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
-USING: init kernel system namespaces io io.encodings io.encodings.utf8 ;
+USING: init kernel system namespaces io io.encodings
+io.encodings.utf8 init assocs ;
 IN: io.backend
 
 SYMBOL: io-backend
@@ -22,7 +23,8 @@ HOOK: normalize-pathname io-backend ( str -- newstr )
 M: object normalize-directory normalize-pathname ;
 
 : set-io-backend ( io-backend -- )
-    io-backend set-global init-io init-stdio ;
+    io-backend set-global init-io init-stdio
+    "io.files" init-hooks get at call ;
 
 [ init-io embedded? [ init-stdio ] unless ]
 "io.backend" add-init-hook
diff --git a/core/io/files/files.factor b/core/io/files/files.factor
index f6888bf78d..436bf8598d 100755
--- a/core/io/files/files.factor
+++ b/core/io/files/files.factor
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ SYMBOL: current-directory
 
 M: object cwd ( -- path ) "." ;
 
-[ cwd current-directory set-global ] "current-directory" add-init-hook
+[ cwd current-directory set-global ] "io.files" add-init-hook
 
 : with-directory ( path quot -- )
     current-directory swap with-variable ; inline