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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: directory reading
Message-ID: <13561@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Aug 90 13:31:24 GMT
References: <BGLENDEN.90Aug14202150@mandrill.cv.nrao.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <BGLENDEN.90Aug14202150@mandrill.cv.nrao.edu> bglenden@mandrill.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes:
>            if (dp->d_ino == 0)
>               continue;
>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.

Yes, all versions of readdir() are expected to filter out "deleted" entries
so there is no need to test for that in the application.