> wingel@t1.ctrl-c.liu.se wrote:
> > So instead of doing "cd file-with-forks"
> You don't CD to a file with streams, because it's not a directory.
But its not a file either, so if you can opendir it why cant you make it
your cwd. Lots of tools depend on that kind of behaviour since the
chdir/opendir(".") sequence is materially faster on some unixes.
So why disallow the chdir().
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