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

NAME

ftw.h — file tree traversal

SYNOPSIS

[XSI]
#include <ftw.h>

DESCRIPTION

The <ftw.h> header shall define the FTW structure, which shall include at least the following members:

int  base
int  level

The <ftw.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants for use as values of the third argument to the application-supplied function that is passed as the second argument to ftw(3) and nftw(3):

FTW_F: Non-directory file.
FTW_D: Directory.
FTW_DNR: Directory without read permission.
FTW_DP: Directory with subdirectories visited.
FTW_NS: Unknown type; stat () failed.
FTW_SL: Symbolic link.
FTW_SLN: Symbolic link that names a nonexistent file.

The <ftw.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants for use as values of the fourth argument to nftw(3):

FTW_PHYS: Physical walk, does not follow symbolic links. Otherwise, nftw () follows links but does not walk down any path that crosses itself.
FTW_MOUNT: The walk does not cross a mount point.
FTW_DEPTH: All subdirectories are visited before the directory itself.
FTW_CHDIR: The walk changes to each directory before reading it.

The following shall be declared as functions and may also be defined as macros. Function prototypes shall be provided.

[OB]
int ftw(const char *, int (*)(const char *, const struct stat *,
    int), int);

int nftw(const char *, int (*)(const char *, const struct stat *,
    int, struct FTW *), int, int);

The <ftw.h> header shall define the stat structure and the symbolic names for st_mode and the file type test macros as described in <sys/stat.h>.

Inclusion of the <ftw.h> header may also make visible all symbols from <sys/stat.h>.

The following sections are informative.