> > So why disallow the chdir().
>
> Because files are not directories. Unless, of course, you
> "implement" streams as directories, which is actually
> avoiding the issue.
If you are going to allow opendir on a file (which is one fairly sane way
to handle stream enumeration) then you might as well allow chdir too. AmigaOS
even allows you to chdir to a file. Granted all you can then open is '' (their
version of '.') but it still follows logically
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