Yes, it seems like this, I have a similar question at here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2017-03/msg00283.html

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On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Monday, 13 Mar 2017 at 15:42, Nick Dokos wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Can I make a plea for an ECM? If you provide one, I can spend five
> > minutes testing it, but without it I'll have to do real work to get an
> > example together and that's much more unlikely to happen.
>
> I've found that babel languages that start specific buffers that
> persist (e.g. octave, gnuplot) will be started in a particular
> directory based on a given org file.  If subsequently another org file,
> in a different directory, is visited, babel won't change the directory
> for existing babel buffers (and probably cannot easily do so in some
> cases?).
>
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