DIRENT.H(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual DIRENT.H(7)

NAME

dirent.h — format of directory entries

SYNOPSIS

#include <dirent.h>

DESCRIPTION

The internal format of directories is unspecified.

The <dirent.h> header defines the following data type through typedef:

DIR: A type representing a directory stream.

It 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>.

The character array d_name is of unspecified size, but the number of bytes preceding the terminating null byte will not exceed {NAME_MAX}.

The following are declared as functions and may also be defined as macros. Function prototypes must be provided for use with an ISO C compiler. int closedir(DIR *); DIR *opendir(const char *); struct dirent *readdir(DIR *); int readdir_r(DIR *, struct dirent *, struct dirent **); void rewinddir(DIR *); void seekdir(DIR *, long int); long int telldir(DIR *);

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS