READDIR
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)
Updated: 22 July 1995
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NAME
readdir - read directory entry
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
#include <linux/dirent.h>
#include <linux/unistd.h>
_syscall3(int, readdir, uint, fd, struct dirent *, dirp, uint, count);
int readdir(unsigned int fd, struct dirent *dirp, unsigned int count);
DESCRIPTION
This is not the function you are interested in.
Look at
readdir(3)
for the POSIX conforming C library interface.
This page documents the bare kernel system call interface,
which can change, and which is superseded by
getdents(2).
readdir
reads one
dirent
structure from the directory
pointed at by
fd
into the memory area pointed to by
dirp.
The parameter
count
is ignored; at most one dirent structure is read.
The
dirent
structure is declared as follows:
-
struct dirent
{
long d_ino; /* inode number */
off_t d_off; /* offset to this dirent */
unsigned short d_reclen; /* length of this d_name */
char d_name [NAME_MAX+1]; /* file name (null-terminated) */
}
d_ino
is an inode number.
d_off
is the distance from the start of the directory to this
dirent.
d_reclen
is the size of
d_name,
not counting the null terminator.
d_name
is a null-terminated file name.
RETURN VALUE
On success, 1 is returned.
On end of directory, 0 is returned.
On error, -1 is returned, and
errno
is set appropriately.
ERRORS
- EBADF
-
Invalid file descriptor
fd.
- ENOTDIR
-
File descriptor does not refer to a directory.
CONFORMING TO
This system call is Linux specific.
SEE ALSO
getdents(2),
readdir(3)
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- RETURN VALUE
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- ERRORS
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- CONFORMING TO
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- SEE ALSO
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