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From: guy@gorodish.UUCP
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Subject: Bug in DIRENT(4) manual page
Message-ID: <13418@sun.uucp>
Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 16:15:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 16 16:15:35 1987
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The DIRENT(4) manual page claims that the "d_off" field of a file
system-independent directory entry contains the offset of that entry.
This conflicted with the directory library code, which returns the
"d_off" field for the entry just read if you do a "telldir", with the
"getdents" code, and with our experience in doing that sort of thing;
the NFS "readdir" operation returns the offset of the *next* entry
with each entry, because that's what you're usually interested in
after reading an entry.

Well, I tried it on a 3B2 here, and by golly, the first directory
entry in "/" gets a "d_off" of 16, not 0.

The documentation is in error, it seems.