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chdir(2) System Calls chdir(2) NAME chdir, fchdir - change working directory SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> int chdir(const char *path); int fchdir(int fildes); DESCRIPTION The chdir() and fchdir() functions cause a directory pointed to by path or fildes to become the current working directory. The starting point for path searches for path names not beginning with / (slash). The path argument points to the path name of a directory. The fildes argument is an open file descriptor of a directory. For a directory to become the current directory, a process must have execute (search) access to the directory. RETURN VALUES Upon successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned, the current working directory is unchanged, and errno is set to indi- cate the error. ERRORS The chdir() function will fail if: EACCES Search permission is denied for any component of the path name. EFAULT The path argument points to an illegal address. EINTR A signal was caught during the execution of the chdir() function. EIO An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating path. ENAMETOOLONG The length of the path argument exceeds PATH_MAX, or the length of a path component ex- ceeds NAME_MAX while _POSIX_NO_TRUNC is in ef- fect. ENOENT Either a component of the path prefix or the directory named by path does not exist or is a null pathname. ENOLINK The path argument points to a remote machine and the link to that machine is no longer ac- tive. ENOTDIR A component of the path name is not a direc- tory. The fchdir() function will fail if: EACCES Search permission is denied for fildes. EBADF The fildes argument is not an open file de- scriptor. EINTR A signal was caught during the execution of the fchdir() function. EIO An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. ENOLINK The fildes argument points to a remote machine and the link to that machine is no longer ac- tive. ENOTDIR The open file descriptor fildes does not refer to a directory. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Async-Signal-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO chroot(2), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 28 Dec 1996 chdir(2)
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