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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)chdir.2     6.5 (Berkeley) 6/6/89
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH CHDIR 2 "June 6, 1989"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: chdir, fchdir \- change current working directory
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .nf
        !            13: .ft B
        !            14: chdir(path)
        !            15: char *path;
        !            16: .ft R
        !            17: .fi
        !            18: .LP
        !            19: .nf
        !            20: .ft B
        !            21: fchdir(fd)
        !            22: int fd;
        !            23: .fi
        !            24: .ft R
        !            25: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            26: .I Path
        !            27: is the pathname of a directory.
        !            28: .I Chdir
        !            29: causes this directory
        !            30: to become the current working directory,
        !            31: the starting point for path names not beginning with ``/''.
        !            32: .PP
        !            33: .I Fchdir
        !            34: causes the directory referenced by
        !            35: .I fd
        !            36: to become the current working directory,
        !            37: the starting point for path names not beginning with ``/''.
        !            38: .PP
        !            39: In order for a directory to become the current directory,
        !            40: a process must have execute (search) access to the directory.
        !            41: .SH "RETURN VALUE
        !            42: Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
        !            43: Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and \fIerrno\fP is set to indicate
        !            44: the error.
        !            45: .SH ERRORS
        !            46: .I Chdir
        !            47: will fail and the current working directory will be unchanged if
        !            48: one or more of the following are true:
        !            49: .TP 15
        !            50: [ENOTDIR]
        !            51: A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
        !            52: .TP 15
        !            53: [EINVAL]
        !            54: The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
        !            55: .TP 15
        !            56: [ENAMETOOLONG]
        !            57: A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
        !            58: or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
        !            59: .TP 15
        !            60: [ENOENT]
        !            61: The named directory does not exist.
        !            62: .TP 15
        !            63: [ELOOP]
        !            64: Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
        !            65: .TP 15
        !            66: [EACCES]
        !            67: Search permission is denied for any component of
        !            68: the path name.
        !            69: .TP 15
        !            70: [EFAULT]
        !            71: .I Path
        !            72: points outside the process's allocated address space.
        !            73: .TP 15
        !            74: [EIO]
        !            75: An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
        !            76: .LP
        !            77: .I Fchdir
        !            78: will fail and the current working directory will be unchanged if
        !            79: one or more of the following are true:
        !            80: .TP 15
        !            81: [ENOTDIR]
        !            82: The file descriptor does not reference a directory.
        !            83: .TP 15
        !            84: EBADF
        !            85: .I fd
        !            86: is not a valid open file descriptor.
        !            87: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            88: chroot(2)

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