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CHDIR(2)                      System Calls Manual                     CHDIR(2)

NAME
       chdir, fchdir - change current working directory

SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       int chdir(const char *path)
       int fchdir(int fd)

DESCRIPTION
       Path  is  the  pathname of a directory.  Fd is the file descriptor of a
       directory.

       Chdir causes this directory to become the  current  working  directory,
       the starting point for path names not beginning with ``/''.

       In  order  for  a  directory to become the current directory, a process
       must have execute (search) access to the directory.

RETURN VALUE
       Upon successful completion, a value of 0  is  returned.   Otherwise,  a
       value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
       Chdir  will fail and the current working directory will be unchanged if
       one or more of the following are true:

       [ENOTDIR]      A component of the path prefix is not a directory.

       [ENAMETOOLONG] The path name exceeds PATH_MAX characters.

       [ENOENT]       The named directory does not exist.

       [ELOOP]        Too many symbolic links were encountered in  translating
                      the pathname.  (Minix-vmd)

       [EACCES]       Search  permission  is  denied  for any component of the
                      path name.

       [EFAULT]       Path points  outside  the  process's  allocated  address
                      space.

       [EIO]          An  I/O  error occurred while reading from or writing to
                      the file system.

SEE ALSO
       chroot(2).

4th Berkeley Distribution       August 26, 1985                       CHDIR(2)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | SEE ALSO