dir(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							    dir(4)

NAME

       dir - format of directories on short-name HFS file systems

SYNOPSIS

   Remarks
       This  entry describes the System V-compatible directory format for the HFS file system.	It is provided strictly for backward compatibility
       and compatibility with applications expecting a System V file system environment.  It is not compatible with the similar but  more  general
       HFS directory format in which describes a format identical to that used in an HFS file system supporting long file names up to 255 bytes in
       length.

       The structure defined in should be used in conjunction with the directory(3C) routines for portability to other industry  UNIX  implementa-
       tions.

DESCRIPTION

       A  directory  behaves exactly like an ordinary file, except that no user can write into a directory.  The structure of a directory entry as
       given in the header file is:

       By convention, the first two entries in each directory are for and (``dot'' and ``dot dot'').  The first is  an	entry  for  the  directory
       itself.	 The second is for the parent directory.  The meaning of is modified for the root directory of the master file system; there is no
       parent, so and have the same meaning.

AUTHOR

       was developed by AT&T and HP.

SEE ALSO

       directory(3C).

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