Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: struct dirent in Linux 2.0 | From | (Aaron M. Ucko) | Date | 17 Feb 1997 12:30:34 -0500 |
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Ulrich Windl <windl@pc5234.dvm.klinik.uni-regensburg.de> writes:
> I've found the following definition for struct dirent 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 */ > > Unfortunately Linux currently defines just > > long d_ino; > __kernel_off_t d_off; > unsigned short d_reclen; > char d_name[256]; /* We must not include limits.h! */ > > I don't have the POSIX specs, but the first one claims to be POSIX. Can > Linux have a d_namlen, too?
The first is definitely not POSIX. *All* POSIX specifies about struct dirent is that it contain d_name.
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