dirent(5)dirent(5)NAME
dirent.h - format of directory streams and directory entries
SYNOPSISDESCRIPTION
This header file defines data types used by the directory stream rou‐
tines described in directory(3C).
The following data types are defined:
A structure containing information about an open directory
stream.
A structure defining the format of entries returned
by the function (see directory(3C)).
The structure includes the following members:
char d_name[MAXNAMLEN+1]; /* name of directory entry */
ino_t d_ino; /* file serial number */
short d_namlen; /* length of string in d_name */
short d_reclen; /* length of this record */
The constant is defined in
Note that the entry is used internally to represent the offset from the
current entry to the next valid entry. Therefore, is not the length of
the current entry, but the length of the current record where a record
is an entry plus any currently unused space between the current entry
and the next valid entry. The unused space between valid entries
results from changes in a directory's contents, such as the deletion of
files and other directories.
This file also contains external declarations for the functions that
perform directory operations (see directory(3C)).
WARNINGS
For 32-bit applications, the d_ino field may overflow for filesystems
that use 64-bit values. In this case, the most-significant bytes will
be truncated without error, and the value may not be unique.
AUTHOR
was developed by AT&T and HP.
SEE ALSOdirectory(3C).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCEdirent(5)