Re: struct dirent - difference between getdents(2) manpage and definition in /usr/src/sys/dirent.h

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 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 Yeah, this is outdated.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 We even have a partly outdated comment on sys/dirent.h...

could you please update these documents to reflect reality?  i guess it's just removing d_reclen (and maybe adding the macro to calculate the length), but i'm not exactly sure.

thanks
 simon

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