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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-06-17 10:52:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-06-17 10:52:33 +0000 |
| commit | 2c3307fb903f427be3d021c5780b75cac9af2ce8 (patch) | |
| tree | 65cf431f40b7481d81ae2dfce9576342686448f7 /upstream/fedora-rawhide/man2/getdents.2 | |
| parent | Releasing progress-linux version 4.22.0-1~progress7.99u1. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 4.23.0.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'upstream/fedora-rawhide/man2/getdents.2')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man2/getdents.2 b/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man2/getdents.2 index d57204bd..728d4d72 100644 --- a/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man2/getdents.2 +++ b/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man2/getdents.2 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" Derived from 'readdir.2'. .\" Modified Tue Oct 22 08:11:14 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> .\" -.TH getdents 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.06" +.TH getdents 2 2024-02-25 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME getdents, getdents64 \- get directory entries .SH LIBRARY @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ structure is declared as follows: .EX struct linux_dirent { unsigned long d_ino; /* Inode number */ - unsigned long d_off; /* Offset to next \fIlinux_dirent\fP */ + unsigned long d_off; /* Not an offset; see below */ unsigned short d_reclen; /* Length of this \fIlinux_dirent\fP */ char d_name[]; /* Filename (null\-terminated) */ /* length is actually (d_reclen \- 2 \- @@ -84,8 +84,12 @@ struct linux_dirent { .I d_ino is an inode number. .I d_off -is the distance from the start of the directory to the start of the next -.IR linux_dirent . +is a filesystem-specific value with no specific meaning to user space, +though on older filesystems it used to be +the distance from the start of the directory to the start of the next +.IR linux_dirent ; +see +.BR readdir (3) . .I d_reclen is the size of this entire .IR linux_dirent . @@ -167,7 +171,7 @@ structures of the following type: .EX struct linux_dirent64 { ino64_t d_ino; /* 64\-bit inode number */ - off64_t d_off; /* 64\-bit offset to next structure */ + off64_t d_off; /* Not an offset; see getdents() */ unsigned short d_reclen; /* Size of this dirent */ unsigned char d_type; /* File type */ char d_name[]; /* Filename (null\-terminated) */ |