Question

I’m having a problem with chdir() in my C program – only when running on Linux (works fine on Mac). I’ve stripped down my code.

Something like this works fine:

chdir("/Documents");

but when I try to pass it as a variable it doesn’t want to work.

char *home_directory;
home_directory = malloc(80);
chdir(home_directory);

Home directory is read from a file elsewhere in my code, I can post how I’ve done that if needed.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Since you are reading home_directory from a file, have you forgotten to remove a trailing newline and any other spurious characters before you use it as a parameter to chdir?