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Diffstat (limited to 'upstream/archlinux/man2/getdents.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | upstream/archlinux/man2/getdents.2 | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/upstream/archlinux/man2/getdents.2 b/upstream/archlinux/man2/getdents.2 index d57204bd..b77e7c81 100644 --- a/upstream/archlinux/man2/getdents.2 +++ b/upstream/archlinux/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 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.8" .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) */ @@ -258,6 +262,7 @@ inode# file type d_reclen d_off d_name #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> +#include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> \& struct linux_dirent { |