> 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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