dirent(4)                      DG/UX R4.11MU05                     dirent(4)


NAME
       dirent - file system independent directory entry

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/dirent.h>
       #include <sys/types.h>

DESCRIPTION
       Different file system types may have different directory entries.
       The dirent structure defines a file system independent directory
       entry, which contains information common to directory entries in
       different file system types.  A set of these structures is returned
       by the getdents(2) system call.

       The dirent structure is defined below.
       struct dirent {
                     ino_t           d_ino;
                     off_t           d_off;
                     unsigned short  d_reclen;
                     char            d_name[1];
              };

       The d_ino is a number which is unique for each file in the file
       system.  The field d_off is the offset of that entry in the file
       system directory.  The field d_name is the beginning of the character
       array giving the name of the directory entry.  This name is null
       terminated and may have at most MAXNAMLEN characters.  This results
       in file system independent directory entries being variable length
       entities.  The value of d_reclen is the record length of this entry.
       This length is defined to be the number of bytes between the current
       entry and the next one, so that it will always result in the next
       entry being on a long boundary.

FILES
       /usr/include/sys/dirent.h

SEE ALSO
       getdents(2).


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