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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Need a little example of scandir()
Message-ID: <az.gM8fzw6Wm.@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 22 May 91 15:25:42 GMT
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>#include <sys/types.h>
>#include <sys/dir.h>
>
>myroutine()
>{
>	int numfiles,loop;
>	struct direct *namelist; 

should be struct direct **namelist; 

>
>	if ((numfiles = scandir(".", namelist, NULL, NULL)) == -1) {

should be scandir(".", &namelist, NULL, NULL);
...
etc

>	  perror("myprogram");
>	  exit(1);
>	}
>
>	for(loop = 0; loop < numfiles; ++loop)
>	  printf("Name -> <%s>\n",namelist[loop].d_name);

should be namelist[loop]->d_name

>}


As the man page says. It's a weird man page.


		-Kartik


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