CHDIR works.

Lookups on different current directory, including /./././/// works as expected.

tasks/fs0/src/path.c

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ struct pathdata *pathdata_parse(const char *pathname,
 		/* Next component */
 		str = splitpath(&pathbuf, VFS_CHAR_SEP);
 	}
-	// pathdata_print(pdata);
+	pathdata_print(pdata);
 
 	return pdata;
 }

tasks/fs0/src/syscalls.c

@@ -181,18 +181,23 @@ int sys_chdir(l4id_t sender, const char *pathname)
 	}
 
 	/* Get the vnode */
-	if (IS_ERR(v = vfs_lookup_bypath(pdata)))
-		return (int)v;
+	if (IS_ERR(v = vfs_lookup_bypath(pdata))) {
+		l4_ipc_return((int)v);
+		return 0;
+	}
 
 	/* Ensure it's a directory */
-	if (!vfs_isdir(v))
-		return -ENOTDIR;
+	if (!vfs_isdir(v)) {
+		l4_ipc_return(-ENOTDIR);
+		return 0;
+	}
 
 	/* Assign the current directory pointer */
 	task->curdir = v;
 
 	/* Destroy extracted path data */
 	pathdata_destroy(pdata);
+	l4_ipc_return(0);
 	return 0;
 }
 

tasks/libposix/chdir.c

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/*
+ * l4/posix glue for mkdir()
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Bahadir Balban
+ */
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <l4lib/arch/syscalls.h>
+#include <l4lib/arch/syslib.h>
+#include <l4lib/ipcdefs.h>
+#include <l4lib/utcb.h>
+#include <l4/macros.h>
+#include INC_GLUE(memory.h)
+
+static inline int l4_chdir(const char *pathname)
+{
+	int fd;
+
+	// write_mr(L4SYS_ARG0, (unsigned long)pathname);
+	copy_to_utcb((void *)pathname, 0, strlen(pathname) + 1);
+	write_mr(L4SYS_ARG0, (unsigned long)utcb_page);
+
+	/* Call pager with shmget() request. Check ipc error. */
+	if ((fd = l4_sendrecv(VFS_TID, VFS_TID, L4_IPC_TAG_CHDIR)) < 0) {
+		printf("%s: L4 IPC Error: %d.\n", __FUNCTION__, fd);
+		return fd;
+	}
+	/* Check if syscall itself was successful */
+	if ((fd = l4_get_retval()) < 0) {
+		printf("%s: MKDIR Error: %d.\n", __FUNCTION__, fd);
+		return fd;
+	}
+	return fd;
+}
+
+int chdir(const char *pathname)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	/* If error, return positive error code */
+	if ((ret = l4_chdir(pathname)) < 0) {
+		errno = -ret;
+		return -1;
+	}
+	/* else return value */
+	return ret;
+}
+

tasks/test0/src/dirtest.c

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ int lsdir(char *path)
 	memset(dents, 0, sizeof(struct dirent) * DENTS_TOTAL);
 
 	if ((fd = open(path, O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
-		perror("OPEN");
+		printf("OPEN failed.");
 		return 0;
 	} else
 		printf("Got fd: %d for opening %s\n", fd, path);
@@ -158,6 +158,9 @@ int dirtest(void)
 		perror("MKDIR");
 	if (mkdir("/home/bahadir", 0) < 0)
 		perror("MKDIR");
+	if (chdir("/home/bahadir") < 0)
+		perror("CHDIR");
+	printf("Changed curdir to /home/bahadir\n");
 
 	printf("\nlsdir root directory:\n");
 	lsdir("/");
@@ -165,6 +168,10 @@ int dirtest(void)
 	printf("\nlsdir /usr:\n");
 	lsdir("/usr");
 
+	printf("\nlsdir current directory:\n");
+	lsdir(".");
+	printf("\nlsdir /usr/./././bin//\n");
+	lsdir("/usr/./././bin//");
 	return 0;
 }