Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:28:32 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: If not readdir() then what? |
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Theodore Tso wrote: > It doesn't state explicitly that you can use the telldir cookie() > after closing the directory stream using closedir() and then reopening > it using opendir(), but given that it states that results are > undefined after a rewinddir() --- which is much less violent than a > closedir()/opendir(), I would definitely argue that an application > programmer would be very ill-advised to rely on this working. > > (Of course, I'd argue that an application programmer shouldn't use > telldir/seekdir at all.....) > > Ulrich, is it too late to insert a clarification that the telldir() > cookie isn't guaranteed to be valid after closedir() *or* rewinddir()?
More fundamentally, the telldir cookie should never be valid when applied to a different DIR * (even one that refers to the same directory.)
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