getcwd() and friends.

[Felix Lee]

In article <12625 at swan.ulowell.edu>,
   arosen at hawk.ulowell.edu (MFHorn) writes:
>Why can't the kernel check access permissions *at the time* of the
>fchdir() call just like it does for chdir() and open()?

This is fine (in fact SunOS4.0 does this), except you can chdir() to
directories you can't open().  Unless you extend open(), fchdir() is
less functional than chdir().
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