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Manual Page - chdir(2)
Manual Reference Pages - CHDIR (2)
NAME
chdir, fchdir - change working directory
CONTENTS
Synopsis
Description
Errors
Notes
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int chdir(const char *path);
int fchdir(int fd);
DESCRIPTION
chdir() changes the current working directory to that specified in
path.
fchdir() is identical to
chdir(); the only difference is that the directory is given as an
open file descriptor.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and
errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
Depending on the file system, other errors can be returned. The more
general errors for
chdir() are listed below:
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EACCES |
Search permission is denied for one of the directories
in the path prefix of
path. (See also
path_resolution(2).)
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EFAULT |
path points outside your accessible address space.
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EIO |
An I/O error occurred.
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ELOOP |
Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving
path.
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ENAMETOOLONG | | |
path is too long.
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ENOENT |
The file does not exist.
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ENOMEM |
Insufficient kernel memory was available.
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ENOTDIR | | |
A component of
path is not a directory.
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The general errors for
fchdir() are listed below:
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EACCES |
Search permission was denied on the directory open on
fd.
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EBADF |
fd is not a valid file descriptor.
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NOTES
A child process created via
fork(2)
inherits its parent’s current working directory.
The current working directory is left unchanged by
execve(2).
The prototype for
fchdir() is only available if
_BSD_SOURCE is defined, or
_XOPEN_SOURCE is defined with the value 500.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, 4.4BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
SEE ALSO
chroot(2),
path_resolution(2),
getcwd(3)
| Linux 2.6.7 | CHDIR (2) | 2004-06-23 |
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