getdents — get directory entries
#include <unistd.h> #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/dirent.h> #include <linux/unistd.h> #include <errno.h>
int
getdents( |
unsigned int | fd, |
| struct dirent * | dirp, | |
| unsigned int | count); |
This is not the function you are interested in. Look at readdir(3) for the POSIX conforming C library interface. This page documents the bare kernel system call interface.
The system call getdents()
reads several dirent
structures from the directory pointed at by fd into the memory area pointed
to by dirp. The
parameter count is
the size of the memory area.
The dirent structure is declared as follows:
struct dirent { long d_ino;off_t d_off;unsigned short d_reclen;char d_name[NAME_MAX+1];};
d_ino is an inode
number. d_off is the
distance from the start of the directory to the start of the
next dirent. d_reclen is the size of this
entire dirent. d_name is a null-terminated
filename.
This call supersedes readdir(2).
On success, the number of bytes read is returned. On end
of directory, 0 is returned. On error, −1 is returned,
and errno is set
appropriately.
Invalid file descriptor fd.
Argument points outside the calling process's address space.
Result buffer is too small.
No such directory.
File descriptor does not refer to a directory.
This page is part of release 2.79 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting
bugs, can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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