directory handling in ansi C

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From: Wayne Beech
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 14:07

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Hello,

Does anyone know the rationale behind not specifically defining a set of
functions to work with directories in ansi C; things like opendir(),
next_dir_entry(), isdir(), etc.  if you are writing a program that works
with directories that is expected to run on unix and non-unix machines how
do you handle this? with a bunch of #ifdef UNIX #elif SOMEOTHERMACHINE ....?

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From: beech@ms.uky.edu (Wayne Beech)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c
Subject: directory handling in ansi C
Keywords: ansi c, directories
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Date: 21 Nov 89 14:07:25 GMT
Organization: U of Ky, Math. Sciences, Lexington KY
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