[Mono-list] Changing directory outside of process.

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 08:00 -0800, floppyformattingfrenzy wrote:
> Is there any way to change the directory when the process expires? This would
> be something akin to what the program cd does.

`cd' isn't a program, it's a shell builtin.  (It needs to be, as the
chdir(2) system call only effects the current process and subsequently
created child processes, not the parent process or previously created
child processes.)

>  I know there's way so setting
> the directory of the process and a way of setting environment variables, but
> these seem to reset after the program expires.

That's why -- the changes only effect the current process.

> I would look this up, but I
> honestly have no idea what to search; I've tried searching variations of
> change directory and persist, but I came up with nothing.

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment[0] covers this.

 - Jon

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Environment-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/0321525949/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232133327&sr=8-1