All right I am currently writing a c function in unix... and is trying to create a child shell to execute various command along with its arguments such as

ls

cd "directory name"

yeah it is a bit redundant, but I am just beginning and this seemed like a good exercise


but for some reason every command work except for my

cd command....

no matter what I remain in the root directory instead of going to the destrination directory....

I am using execvp if I successfully create a fork... and have the parent pid wait until the child pid has finished it functions before proceeding....

I am guessing so far now is that whenever I close the child directory, any non-permanent (such as mkdir) are ignored as I close that child thread and open a new one....

again I am only guessing at this... is there anyone who might see me through this.... Thanks....