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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: List a directory in a C program on Unix machines
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Date: 12 Aug 90 22:57:38 GMT
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(Given the subject, why is this in comp.lang.c?  Why the usa
distribution?  I am moving it to comp.unix.questions, although I
anticipate no further comments.)

In article <159@smds.UUCP> rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
[re opendir/readdir/closedir]
>But be warned.  There are some portability pitfalls so the routine to
>fetch the file names should be encapsulated.  The major variants that
>I can think of offhand are:
>
>(a)	BSD	Uses <sys/dir.h> 
>(b)	SYS V	Uses <dirent.h>

POSIX says <dirent.h>; 4.3BSD-Reno and later systems thus use <dirent.h>.

>(c)	SYS V	Older versions of SYS V may not have these routines.
>		You can write your own. ...

Or use Doug Gwyn's version of Kirk McKusick's version of these routines.

[other systems deleted]
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