alt Hacker NewsPresumably you can call chdir(2) from the C code?
Or did you mean change the directory of the calling shell (in which case, executable shell scripts written in Bash and friends can’t do that either).
Presumably you can call chdir(2) from the C code?
Or did you mean change the directory of the calling shell (in which case, executable shell scripts written in Bash and friends can’t do that either).
Well, you can "source" a script, so its effects persist in your current shell session. That's a feature of the script and your shell sharing the same language.