From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-01-15T17:05:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.chdir

Hi,

In message "Dir.chdir"
    on 03/01/15, TOTO <zhoujing@comp.nus.edu.sg> writes:

|It seems that the class method "Dir.chdir" can't be used to implemnt
|the Unix command cd, because it can only change the working directory
|of the current process. Is that right?
|
|Can someone suggest a good way to do the same thing as the Unix cd
|command?

Unfortunately, there's no way to change other process's current
working directory from outside.  'the Unix cd command' is a shell
builtin.

							matz.