DIRENT.H(3HEAD) Headers DIRENT.H(3HEAD)

NAME

dirent.h, dirent - format of directory entries

SYNOPSIS

#include <dirent.h>

DESCRIPTION

The internal format of directories is unspecified. The <dirent.h>
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 <sys/types.h>. 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(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Standard |
+--------------------+-----------------+

SEE ALSO

closedir(3C), opendir(3C), readdir(3C), rewinddir(3C), seekdir(3C),
telldir(3C), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(7), standards(7)

September 10, 2004 DIRENT.H(3HEAD)