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NAME

       direntry - read directory entries

SYNTAX

       #include <direntry.h>

       DIR *opendir(fn);

       struct direntry *readdir(dir);

       void closedir(dir);

       DIR *dir;
       char *fn;

DESCRIPTION

       The point of direntry.h is to provide a uniform interface to BSD's sys/dir.h and POSIX's dirent.h.

       The  readdir  interface	is  highly unsatisfactory.  It does not distinguish between I/O errors and end-of-directory.  It uses malloc.  The
       return type for closedir varies: some implementations return the close return value.

SEE ALSO

       readdir(3)

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DIRECTORY(3)						     Library Functions Manual						      DIRECTORY(3)

NAME

       opendir, readdir, telldir, seekdir, rewinddir, closedir - directory operations

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/types.h>
       #include <sys/dir.h>

       DIR *opendir(filename)
       char *filename;

       struct direct *readdir(dirp)
       DIR *dirp;

       long telldir(dirp)
       DIR *dirp;

       seekdir(dirp, loc)
       DIR *dirp;
       long loc;

       rewinddir(dirp)
       DIR *dirp;

       closedir(dirp)
       DIR *dirp;

DESCRIPTION

       Opendir	opens the directory named by filename and associates a directory stream with it.  Opendir returns a pointer to be used to identify
       the directory stream in subsequent operations.  The pointer NULL is returned if filename cannot be accessed,  or  if  it  cannot  malloc(3)
       enough memory to hold the whole thing.

       Readdir	returns  a  pointer  to  the next directory entry.  It returns NULL upon reaching the end of the directory or detecting an invalid
       seekdir operation.

       Telldir returns the current location associated with the named directory stream.

       Seekdir sets the position of the next readdir operation on the directory stream.  The new position reverts to the one associated  with  the
       directory  stream  when	the telldir operation was performed.  Values returned by telldir are good only for the lifetime of the DIR pointer
       from which they are derived.  If the directory is closed and then reopened, the telldir value may be invalidated due to	undetected  direc-
       tory compaction.  It is safe to use a previous telldir value immediately after a call to opendir and before any calls to readdir.

       Rewinddir resets the position of the named directory stream to the beginning of the directory.

       Closedir closes the named directory stream and frees the structure associated with the DIR pointer.

       Sample code which searchs a directory for entry ``name'' is:

	    len = strlen(name);
	    dirp = opendir(".");
	    for (dp = readdir(dirp); dp != NULL; dp = readdir(dirp))
		 if (dp->d_namlen == len && !strcmp(dp->d_name, name)) {
		      closedir(dirp);
		      return FOUND;
		 }
	    closedir(dirp);
	    return NOT_FOUND;

SEE ALSO

       open(2), close(2), read(2), lseek(2), dir(5)

4.2 Berkeley Distribution					September 24, 1985						      DIRECTORY(3)