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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man2/chdir.2 b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man2/chdir.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..91dbc445 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/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 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.04" +.SH NAME +chdir, fchdir \- change working directory +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <unistd.h> +.PP +.BI "int chdir(const char *" path ); +.BI "int fchdir(int " fd ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.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 . +.PP +.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. +.PP +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]). +.PP +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) |