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From: bglenden@mandrill.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: directory reading
Message-ID: <BGLENDEN.90Aug14202150@mandrill.cv.nrao.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 90 00:21:50 GMT
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I'm converting some old directory reading code to get it to work on
the latest version of Convex OS (8.1). The old code contained:
   struct direct *dp;
[...]
            if (dp->d_ino == 0)
               continue;
Presumably because the reading routines could return non-null pointers
that contained invalid (deleted or whatever) directory entries. It
looks like modern readdir(3)'s only return pointers to valid entries,
and NULL at the end, so a test of this type is no longer required.
True?

Thanks!

Brian
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