From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Kotler Subject: Re: chdir on linux does not work Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 03:21:04 -0400 Message-ID: <44740960.1030201@comcast.net> References: <20060524024929.99396.qmail@web50504.mail.yahoo.com> <20060524042614.GA18142@kurp.hut.fi> <447401F4.4020603@comcast.net> <17524.2055.728735.900869@eidolon.muppetlabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17524.2055.728735.900869@eidolon.muppetlabs.com> Sender: linux-assembly-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Brian Raiter Cc: linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org Brian Raiter wrote: >>>You can't e.g. write a replacement for shell's builtin "cd" >>>command that way. >> >>Okay, how *would* we do that? > > > It is simply not possible. Like setenv, cd absolutely must be a shell > builtin. Okay... Thanks for the quick response, Brian - probably saved me a lot of frustration! Best, Frank