Re: how portable is fchdir?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:43:11PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
>Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Do any of you know of reasonably modern systems
>> that do *not* support fchdir?
>
>It's broken in Cygwin, at least for 1.3.6-6.  See:
>
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg00963.html

Quoting a year-old message hardly qualifies as "broken on cygwin".

>> I've heard that on at least SunOS4 it fails for file systems
>> on which some type of accounting is enabled.
>
>Yes, it fails if auditing is enabled.  Similarly for IRIX 5.3
>(IRIX and SunOS share some code in this area, if I recall.)
>I vaguely recall it has other NFS-related problems.
>
>> But SunOS4 is not exactly modern.
>> 
>> Also, it looks like SCO Xenix lacks the function altogether,
>> but that's hardly modern either.
>
>It's also missing from Ultrix and AIX 3.2.5.
>
>None of these systems are exactly spring chickens, except for Cygwin.

and the version of cygwin that you are referring to isn't exactly a
spring chicken either.

cgf