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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: changing cwd after process exec
Message-ID: <7787@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 28 Apr 88 19:32:45 GMT
References: <13144@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <13144@brl-adm.ARPA> andrew@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Andrew David Biewer) writes:
>Doe anyone know how I can change my cwd from within a program
>(run as a process) so when I leave that process, the change is still made?

There is no reasonable way to do this; it's an intentional feature of
the UNIX process design.