changing cwd after process exec

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Fri Apr 29 05:32:45 AEST 1988


In article <13144 at brl-adm.ARPA> andrew at csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Andrew David Biewer) writes:
>Doe anyone know how I can change my cwd from within a program
>(run as a process) so when I leave that process, the change is still made?

There is no reasonable way to do this; it's an intentional feature of
the UNIX process design.



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