#include <unistd.h> int
chdir (const char *path); int
fchdir (int fd);
DESCRIPTION
The
Fa path
argument points to the pathname of a directory.
The
chdir ();
system call
causes the named directory
to become the current working directory, that is,
the starting point for path searches of pathnames not beginning with
a slash,
`/'
The
fchdir ();
system call
causes the directory referenced by
Fa fd
to become the current working directory,
the starting point for path searches of pathnames not beginning with
a slash,
`/'
In order for a directory to become the current directory,
a process must have execute (search) access to the directory.
RETURN VALUES
Rv -std
ERRORS
The
chdir ();
system call
will fail and the current working directory will be unchanged if
one or more of the following are true:
Bq Er ENOTDIR
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
Bq Er ENOENT
The named directory does not exist.
Bq Er ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
Bq Er EACCES
Search permission is denied for any component of
the path name.
Bq Er EFAULT
The
Fa path
argument
points outside the process's allocated address space.
Bq Er EIO
An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
The
fchdir ();
system call
will fail and the current working directory will be unchanged if
one or more of the following are true:
Bq Er EACCES
Search permission is denied for the directory referenced by the
file descriptor.
Bq Er ENOTDIR
The file descriptor does not reference a directory.
Bq Er EBADF
The argument
Fa fd
is not a valid file descriptor.
