Re: chdir on linux does not work

Timo Lindfors <[email protected]> Wed, 24 May 2006 15:17:44 +0300
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-assembly
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:15:19AM -0700, Brian Raiter wrote:
> It is simply not possible. Like setenv, cd absolutely must be a shell
> builtin.

Indeed, unless you do some dirty tricks by using ptrace(2) to attach
to the parent and force it to do the chdir syscall :)

best regards,
Timo Lindfors