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20 * POSIX Standard: 5.1.2 Directory Operations <dirent.h>
30 #include <gnu/types.h>
33 /* Directory entry structure.
35 This structure is laid out identically to the `struct direct' that
36 represents directory entries in the GNU Hurd and in BSD Unix (and
37 incidentally, on disk in the Berkeley fast file system). The `readdir'
38 implementations for GNU and BSD know this; you must change them if you
39 change this structure. */
43 __ino_t d_fileno; /* File serial number. */
44 unsigned short int d_reclen; /* Length of the whole `struct dirent'. */
45 unsigned short int d_namlen; /* Length of the file name. */
47 /* Only this member is in the POSIX standard. */
48 char d_name[1]; /* File name (actually longer). */
51 #if defined(__USE_BSD) || defined(__USE_MISC)
52 #define d_ino d_fileno /* Backward compatibility. */
55 /* Get the system-dependent definition of `DIR',
56 the data type of directory stream objects. */
57 #include <dirstream.h>
59 /* Open a directory stream on NAME.
60 Return a DIR stream on the directory, or NULL if it could not be opened. */
61 extern DIR *opendir __P ((__const char *__name));
63 /* Close the directory stream DIRP.
64 Return 0 if successful, -1 if not. */
65 extern int closedir __P ((DIR * __dirp));
67 /* Read a directory entry from DIRP.
68 Return a pointer to a `struct dirent' describing the entry,
69 or NULL for EOF or error. The storage returned may be overwritten
70 by a later readdir call on the same DIR stream. */
71 extern struct dirent *readdir __P ((DIR * __dirp));
73 /* Rewind DIRP to the beginning of the directory. */
74 extern void rewinddir __P ((DIR * __dirp));
76 #if defined(__USE_BSD) || defined(__USE_MISC)
79 /* Get the definitions of the POSIX.1 limits. */
80 #include <posix1_lim.h>
82 /* `MAXNAMLEN' is the BSD name for what POSIX calls `NAME_MAX'. */
84 #define MAXNAMLEN NAME_MAX
90 #include <gnu/types.h>
92 /* Seek to position POS on DIRP. */
93 extern void seekdir __P ((DIR * __dirp, __off_t __pos));
95 /* Return the current position of DIRP. */
96 extern __off_t telldir __P ((DIR * __dirp));
98 /* Scan the directory DIR, calling SELECT on each directory entry.
99 Entries for which SELECT returns nonzero are individually malloc'd,
100 sorted using qsort with CMP, and collected in a malloc'd array in
101 *NAMELIST. Returns the number of entries selected, or -1 on error. */
102 extern int scandir __P ((__const char *__dir,
103 struct dirent ***__namelist,
104 int (*__select) __P ((struct dirent *)),
105 int (*__cmp) __P ((__const __ptr_t,
108 /* Function to compare two `struct dirent's alphabetically. */
109 extern int alphasort __P ((__const __ptr_t, __const __ptr_t));
112 /* Read directory entries from FD into BUF, reading at most NBYTES.
113 Reading starts at offset *BASEP, and *BASEP is updated with the new
114 position after reading. Returns the number of bytes read; zero when at
115 end of directory; or -1 for errors. */
116 extern __ssize_t __getdirentries __P ((int __fd, char *__buf,
117 size_t __nbytes, __off_t *__basep));
118 extern __ssize_t getdirentries __P ((int __fd, char *__buf,
119 size_t __nbytes, __off_t *__basep));
122 #endif /* Use BSD or misc. */
126 #endif /* dirent.h */