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42 .Nd change current working directory
48 .Fn chdir "const char *path"
54 argument points to the pathname of a directory.
58 causes the named directory
59 to become the current working directory, that is,
60 the starting point for path searches of pathnames not beginning with
67 causes the directory referenced by
69 to become the current working directory,
70 the starting point for path searches of pathnames not beginning with
74 In order for a directory to become the current directory,
75 a process must have execute (search) access to the directory.
80 will fail and the current working directory will be unchanged if
81 one or more of the following are true:
84 A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
85 .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
86 A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
87 or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
89 The named directory does not exist.
91 Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
93 Search permission is denied for any component of
97 points outside the process's allocated address space.
99 An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
103 will fail and the current working directory will be unchanged if
104 one or more of the following are true:
107 Search permission is denied for the directory referenced by the
110 The file descriptor does not reference a directory.
114 is not a valid file descriptor.
121 function call is expected to conform to
126 function call appeared in