Junio C Hamano schrieb: > You memcpy() what the library gave you in *result to the > statically allocated "temp". d_name[] in "temp" comes from the > structure definition in the user visible include file, which > could be much shorter than what the library gave you in *result. > The structure definition I showed in my message you are > responding to illustrates the issue. If MacOS uses a similar > trick to define d_name[256] and sometimes returns much longer > name in *result, you are truncating the name by copying only the > first part of the structure and first 256 bytes of d_name[]. Now I understand what you mean. Ok, I'll try to change this and make this work on other platforms too. I didn't know that the readdir function is allowed to return something longer for d_name than the specified length. Regards, Mark