GNU/Linux |
Debian 6.0.8(Squeeze) |
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readdir(2) |
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readdir − read directory entry
int
readdir(unsigned int fd, struct
old_linux_dirent *dirp,
unsigned int count);
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 This page documents the bare kernel system call interface, which is superseded by getdents(2).
readdir() reads one old_linux_dirent structure from the directory referred to by the file descriptor fd into the buffer pointed to by dirp. The argument count is ignored; at most one old_linux_dirent structure is read.
The old_linux_dirent structure is declared as follows:
struct
old_linux_dirent {
long d_ino; /* inode number */
off_t d_off; /* offset to this old_linux_dirent */
unsigned short d_reclen; /* length of this d_name */
char d_name[NAME_MAX+1]; /* filename (null-terminated) */
}
d_ino is an inode number. d_off is the distance from the start of the directory to this old_linux_dirent. d_reclen is the size of d_name, not counting the terminating null byte. d_name is a null-terminated filename.
On success, 1 is returned. On end of directory, 0 is returned. On error, −1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
EBADF |
Invalid file descriptor fd. | ||
EFAULT |
Argument points outside the calling process’s address space. | ||
EINVAL |
Result buffer is too small. | ||
ENOENT |
No such directory. |
ENOTDIR
File descriptor does not refer to a directory.
This system call is Linux-specific.
Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using syscall(2). You will need to define the old_linux_dirent structure yourself.
getdents(2), readdir(3)
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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