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From: Sam Varshavchik <mrsam-W1w4QoW4mIDgLSHwZvcCBg@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: What's the equivalent of readdirat()?
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:00:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cone.1203372021.37933.7234.500@commodore.email-scan.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200802181426.44768.rob@landley.net

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Rob Landley writes:

> I'm moving some code to use openat() and friends, but there doesn't appear to 
> be a readdirat().
> 
> The problem is that readdir(3) takes a path from cwd.

No, it doesn't. readdir() takes an existing DIR pointer, that was previously 
returned by opendir(3).

You will note that the opendir(3) man page also described an alternative 
fdopendir() function, which in conjunction with openat(3) will do what you 
want.


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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-18 20:26 What's the equivalent of readdirat()? Rob Landley
2008-02-18 22:00 ` Sam Varshavchik [this message]

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