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FCHDIR(3P)                POSIX Programmer's Manual               FCHDIR(3P)

PROLOG         top

       This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux
       implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
       corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
       the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME         top

       fchdir — change working directory

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <unistd.h>
       int fchdir(int fildes);

DESCRIPTION         top

       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         top

       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         top

       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         top

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE         top

       None.

RATIONALE         top

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS         top

       None.

SEE ALSO         top

       chdir(3p), dirfd(3p)
       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, unistd.h(0p)

COPYRIGHT         top

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
       Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
       Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
       Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
       Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1
       applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and
       the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and
       The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
       Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .
       Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are
       most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the
       source files to man page format. To report such errors, see
       https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .
IEEE/The Open Group                 2013                          FCHDIR(3P)

Pages that refer to this page: unistd.h(0p),  dirfd(3p)