The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6
IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition
Copyright © 2001-2004 The IEEE and The Open Group, All Rights reserved.
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NAME

fchdir - change working directory

SYNOPSIS

[XSI] [Option Start] #include <unistd.h>

int fchdir(int
fildes); [Option End]

DESCRIPTION

The fchdir() function shall be equivalent to chdir() except that the directory that is to be the new current working directory is specified by the file descriptor fildes.

A conforming application can obtain a file descriptor for a file of type directory using open(), provided that the file status flags and access modes do not contain O_WRONLY or O_RDWR.

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, fchdir() shall return 0. Otherwise, it shall return -1 and set errno to indicate the error. On failure the current working directory shall remain unchanged.

ERRORS

The fchdir() function shall fail if:

[EACCES]
Search permission is denied for the directory referenced by fildes.
[EBADF]
The fildes argument is not an open file descriptor.
[ENOTDIR]
The open file descriptor fildes does not refer to a directory.

The fchdir() may fail if:

[EINTR]
A signal was caught during the execution of fchdir().
[EIO]
An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.

The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

chdir(), the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <unistd.h>

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 4, Version 2.

Issue 5

Moved from X/OPEN UNIX extension to BASE.

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