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AHELP for CIAO 3.4 chdir Context: slangrtl

Synopsis

Change the current working directory.

Syntax

Integer_Type chdir (String_Type dir)

Description

The chdir function may be used to changed the current working directory to the directory specified by dir. Upon success it returns zero; however, upon failure it returns -1 and sets errno accordingly.

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