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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-04-26 15:06:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-05-02 01:24:19 +0200 |
| commit | dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd (patch) | |
| tree | 78b9b7425130e4a5858e4c01a524d802423879ed /man/man2/chdir.2 | |
| parent | 12aca537ce78a41bbcdaf485209691e10f8002d7 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd.tar.gz | |
man/, share/mk/: Move man*/ to man/
This is a scripted change:
$ mkdir man/;
$ mv man* man/;
$ ln -st . man/man*;
$ find share/mk/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l '^MANDIR *:=' \
| xargs sed -i '/^MANDIR *:=/s,$,/man,';
$ find share/mk/dist/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l man \
| xargs sed -i 's,man%,man/%,g';
Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/YxcV4h+Xn7cd6+q2@pevik/T/>
Cc: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Cc: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Cc: Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man2/chdir.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man2/chdir.2 | 127 |
1 files changed, 127 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man2/chdir.2 b/man/man2/chdir.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d33efbdfed --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man2/chdir.2 @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1992 Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu), March 28, 1992 +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" Modified by Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de> +.\" Modified 1993-07-21 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> +.\" Modified 1995-04-15 by Michael Chastain <mec@shell.portal.com>: +.\" Added 'fchdir'. Fixed bugs in error section. +.\" Modified 1996-10-21 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> +.\" Modified 1997-08-21 by Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> +.\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" +.TH chdir 2 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +chdir, fchdir \- change working directory +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <unistd.h> +.P +.BI "int chdir(const char *" path ); +.BI "int fchdir(int " fd ); +.fi +.P +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.P +.BR fchdir (): +.nf + _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 +.\" || _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED + || /* Since glibc 2.12: */ _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L + || /* glibc up to and including 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR chdir () +changes the current working directory of the calling process to the +directory specified in +.IR path . +.P +.BR fchdir () +is identical to +.BR chdir (); +the only difference is that the directory is given as an +open file descriptor. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, zero is returned. +On error, \-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +Depending on the filesystem, other errors can be returned. +The more +general errors for +.BR chdir () +are listed below: +.TP +.B EACCES +Search permission is denied for one of the components of +.IR path . +(See also +.BR path_resolution (7).) +.TP +.B EFAULT +.I path +points outside your accessible address space. +.TP +.B EIO +An I/O error occurred. +.TP +.B ELOOP +Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving +.IR path . +.TP +.B ENAMETOOLONG +.I path +is too long. +.TP +.B ENOENT +The directory specified in +.I path +does not exist. +.TP +.B ENOMEM +Insufficient kernel memory was available. +.TP +.B ENOTDIR +A component of +.I path +is not a directory. +.P +The general errors for +.BR fchdir () +are listed below: +.TP +.B EACCES +Search permission was denied on the directory open on +.IR fd . +.TP +.B EBADF +.I fd +is not a valid file descriptor. +.TP +.B ENOTDIR +.I fd +does not refer to a directory. +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.4BSD. +.SH NOTES +The current working directory is the starting point for interpreting +relative pathnames (those not starting with \[aq]/\[aq]). +.P +A child process created via +.BR fork (2) +inherits its parent's current working directory. +The current working directory is left unchanged by +.BR execve (2). +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR chroot (2), +.BR getcwd (3), +.BR path_resolution (7) |