Alan Cox wrote:
> 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().
Because files are not directories. Unless, of course, you
"implement" streams as directories, which is actually
avoiding the issue.
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