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From: Allan Wooley <awooley@exeter.edu>
Subject: chdir command
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 15:54:31 -0400
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I can not get system call #12 to work as advertised.  In Read Hat Linux
7.2 under bash using nasm with elf I write:

section .text
    global _start

path    db '/root',0

_start:

    mov ebx, path
    mov eax,12
    int 80h

    mov eax, 1
    int 80h        ;; int 0x80

Although I have gotten system calls 1, 3-6 & 11 to work fine in assembly
programs, I can not get the change-working-directory call to work.