opensolaris man page for dirent

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 5.11							    10 Sep 2004 						   dirent.h(3HEAD)