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From: guy@gorodish.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Dir(3) emulation - missing seekdir(3)
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Date: Sun, 29-Mar-87 17:34:47 EST
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>I was moving rn over to a 3b2 running SysVr3 and found that it's
>already got the directory reading stuff in /lib/libc.a (A first!).
>HOWEVER (argh! argh! argh!) they changed the names:

"They" didn't change the names.  The IEEE P1003.1 committee did, and
they had a good reason; some systems (like all the ones with V7 file
systems, including S5) already *have* a "struct direct" which is the
native directory entry structure.  The 4BSD one used the same
format for on-disk directory entries and entries as returned by
"readdir", so they could get away with this.