DIRREAD(2)							System Calls Manual							DIRREAD(2)

NAME

       dirread - read directory

SYNOPSIS

       #include <u.h>
       #include <libc.h>

       int dirread(int fd, Dir *buf, long nbytes)

DESCRIPTION

       The data returned by a read(2) on a directory is a set of complete directory entries in a machine-independent format, exactly equivalent to
       the result of a stat(2) on each file or subdirectory in the directory.  Dirread decodes the  directory  entries	into  a  machine-dependent
       form.   It reads from fd and unpacks the data into Dir structures in buf (see stat(2) for the layout of a Dir).	Nbytes is the size of buf;
       it should be a multiple of sizeof(Dir).	Directory entries have length DIRLEN (defined in <libc.h>) in machine-independent  form.   A  suc-
       cessful read of a directory always returns a multiple of DIRLEN; dirread always returns a multiple of sizeof(Dir).

       Dirread	returns the number of bytes filled in buf; the number returned may be less than the number requested.  The file offset is advanced
       by the number of bytes actually read.

SOURCE

       /sys/src/libc/9sys/dirread.c

SEE ALSO

       intro(2), open(2), read(2)

DIAGNOSTICS

       Sets errstr.

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