dirent(5)							File Formats Manual							 dirent(5)

NAME

       dirent.h - format of directory streams and directory entries

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       This header file defines data types used by the directory stream routines described in directory(3C).

       The following data types are defined:

	      A structure containing information about an open directory stream.

	      A structure defining the format of entries returned
				  by the function (see directory(3C)).

       The structure includes the following members:

	      char d_name[MAXNAMLEN+1];  /* name of directory entry */
	      ino_t d_ino;		 /* file serial number */
	      short d_namlen;		 /* length of string in d_name */
	      short d_reclen;		 /* length of this record */

       The constant is defined in

       Note  that  the	entry  is  used  internally to represent the offset from the current entry to the next valid entry.  Therefore, is not the
       length of the current entry, but the length of the current record where a record is an entry plus any currently unused  space  between  the
       current entry and the next valid entry.	The unused space between valid entries results from changes in a directory's contents, such as the
       deletion of files and other directories.

       This file also contains external declarations for the functions that perform directory operations (see directory(3C)).

WARNINGS

       For 32-bit applications, the d_ino field may overflow for filesystems that use 64-bit values.  In this  case,  the  most-significant  bytes
       will be truncated without error, and the value may not be unique.

AUTHOR

       was developed by AT&T and HP.

SEE ALSO

       directory(3C).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

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