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Article #9269Re: reading directory under SYSTEM V
From: Daniel R. Levy
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1986 03:51
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1986 03:51
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In article <5770001@acf2.UUCP>, banner@acf2.UUCP (Bernard Banner) writes:
>
>Cound anybody suggest a method of reading directory information from a C
>program under SYSTEM V UNIX? I need something equivalent to the opendir and
>readdir functionality supplied under BSD.
Since SysV directories have a fixed structure, it is absurdly simple to
write your own directory parsers:
$ od -c /usr/bin
0000000 \0 k . \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000020 \0 002 . . \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000040 \0 l n e w s \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000060 \0 m b c \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000100 \0 n m 4 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000120 \0 o p r o f \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000140 \0 p p c a t \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000160 \0 q c b \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000200 \0 r l i n t \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
INODE FILENAME (14 bytes, NUL-filled [be careful, since 14-byte
(Zero names will NOT be NUL-terminated! {f}read() the
if entry filename field into a longer buffer with a NUL
is unlinked) in the 15th byte to avoid this problem])
...
Look in /usr/include/sys/dir.h for declarations that you can use.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!caip!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!cuae2!ltuxa!ttrdc!levy From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: reading directory under SYSTEM V Message-ID: <1185@ttrdc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Sep-86 23:51:05 EDT Article-I.D.: ttrdc.1185 Posted: Sat Sep 6 23:51:05 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Sep-86 20:19:38 EDT References: <5770001@acf2.UUCP> Organization: AT&T, Computer Systems Division, Skokie, IL Lines: 35