Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man dirent

Headers                                           dirent.h(3HEAD)



NAME
     dirent.h, dirent - format of directory entries

SYNOPSIS
     #include 


DESCRIPTION
     The internal  format  of  directories  is  unspecified.  The
      header defines the following type:

     DIR    A type representing a directory stream.



     The header also defines the structure dirent, which includes
     the following members:

       ino_t d_ino        /* file serial number */
       char  d_name[]     /* name of entry */



     The type ino_t is defined as described in . See
     types(3HEAD).


     The character array d_name is of unspecified size,  but  the
     number of bytes preceding the terminating null byte must not
     exceed {NAME_MAX}.

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Committed                   |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Standard                    | See standards(5).           |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     closedir(3C),   opendir(3C),   readdir(3C),   rewinddir(3C),
     seekdir(3C),   telldir(3C),  types.h(3HEAD),  attributes(5),
     standards(5)





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