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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/getdirentries.3 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/getdirentries.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..67d6da16 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/getdirentries.3 @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Portions extracted from /usr/include/dirent.h are: +.\" Copyright 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH getdirentries 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +getdirentries \- get directory entries in a filesystem-independent format +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <dirent.h> +.PP +.BI "ssize_t getdirentries(int " fd ", char " buf "[restrict ." nbytes "], \ +size_t " nbytes , +.BI " off_t *restrict " basep ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.BR getdirentries (): +.nf + Since glibc 2.19: + _DEFAULT_SOURCE + glibc 2.19 and earlier: + _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +Read directory entries from the directory specified by +.I fd +into +.IR buf . +At most +.I nbytes +are read. +Reading starts at offset +.IR *basep , +and +.I *basep +is updated with the new position after reading. +.SH RETURN VALUE +.BR getdirentries () +returns the number of bytes read or zero when at the end of the directory. +If an error occurs, \-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +See the Linux library source code for details. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR getdirentries () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +BSD. +.SH NOTES +Use +.BR opendir (3) +and +.BR readdir (3) +instead. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR lseek (2), +.BR open (2) |