Re: struct dirent in Linux 2.0

Snow Cat (snowcat@netgate.net)
Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:58:17 -0800 (PST)


Ulrich Windl once wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> 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?
>

I asked this before and it was pointed out to me that d_name is '\0'
terminated so strlen(d->d_name) works on Linux and other platforms just as
well.

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