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-.\" 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 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
-.SH NAME
-chdir, fchdir \- change working directory
-.SH LIBRARY
-Standard C library
-.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.nf
-.B #include <unistd.h>
-.P
-.BI "int chdir(const char *" path );
-.BI "int fchdir(int " fd );
-.fi
-.P
-.RS -4
-Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
-.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
-.RE
-.P
-.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 .
-.P
-.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.
-.P
-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]).
-.P
-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)