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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000
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-'\" 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 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
-.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>
-.P
-.BI "ssize_t getdirentries(int " fd ", char " buf "[restrict ." nbytes "], \
-size_t " nbytes ,
-.BI " off_t *restrict " basep );
-.fi
-.P
-.RS -4
-Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
-.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
-.RE
-.P
-.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
-.SH STANDARDS
-BSD.
-.SH NOTES
-Use
-.BR opendir (3)
-and
-.BR readdir (3)
-instead.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR lseek (2),
-.BR open (2)