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Re: struct dirent - difference between getdents(2) manpage and definition in /usr/src/sys/dirent.h
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:55:00PM +0530, Karthik Subramanian wrote:
> I was fooling around a little with getdents (yes, I know that I
> shouldn't be using getdents!) and found that the getdents manpage
> happened to say this about struct dirent:
Yeah, you shouldn't :-)
> The data in the buffer is a series of dirent structures each containing
> the following entries:
>
> u_int32_t d_fileno;
> u_int16_t d_reclen;
> u_int8_t d_type;
> u_int8_t d_namlen;
> char d_name[MAXNAMELEN + 1]; /* see below */
>
> The d_fileno entry is a number which is unique for each distinct file in
> the filesystem. Files that are linked by hard links (see link(2)) have
> the same d_fileno. The d_reclen entry is the length, in bytes, of the
> directory record.
Yeah, this is outdated. I'm seriously thinking about just eliminiating
this. Hm. We even have a partly outdated comment on sys/dirent.h...
> It looks like this def is missing d_reclen, whereas the getdents
> manpage mentions it - or am I missing something here?
d_reclen doesn't exist anymore, since it was superfluous from the very
beginning. It was abused by some filesystems to save logic, but since
the 64bit ino_t need to convert the output anyway, it was just easier to
merge it into a commmon helper function.
Joerg
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