03-17-2008
The readdir system call
man page says "This is not the function you are interested in. Look at readdir(3) for the POSIX conforming C library interface. This page documents the bare kernel system call interface, which can change, and which is superseded by getdents(2)."
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dirent.h
dirent.h(3HEAD) Headers dirent.h(3HEAD)
NAME
dirent.h, dirent - format of directory entries
SYNOPSIS
#include <dirent.h>
DESCRIPTION
The internal format of directories is unspecified. The <dirent.h> header defines the following type:
DIR A type representing a directory stream.
The header also defines the structure dirent, which includes the following members:
ino_t d_ino /* file serial number */
char d_name[] /* name of entry */
The type ino_t is defined as described in <sys/types.h>. See types(3HEAD).
The character array d_name is of unspecified size, but the number of bytes preceding the terminating null byte must not exceed {NAME_MAX}.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
closedir(3C), opendir(3C), readdir(3C), rewinddir(3C), seekdir(3C), telldir(3C), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5)
SunOS 5.10 10 Sep 2004 dirent.h(3HEAD)