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From: njacobs@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nick Jacobs - EOS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: how to change parent environment?
Message-ID: <1991May2.194624.21819@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 2 May 91 19:46:24 GMT
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How do you change the current working directory in a program, so
that when the program is invoked from a shell, the cwd stays
changed after the program exits?
You can't do it with chdir(2) of course, because that only affects
the current process.

Nick