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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: POSIX Dir vs. Gwyn Dir?
Message-ID: <1417@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 10 Apr 89 19:37:05 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >It seems like more and more often when I get software off the net
 >which does directory reading, I have to hack it up to get it running.
 >I'm using the Gwyn directory package layered on top of a system V.1
 >(UNIX-PC, actually).  Did POSIX change after Doug's stuff came out
 >and everybody but me upgrade?  Or am I just bumping into old BSD
 >stuff?

I think you're probably just bumping into old BSD stuff.  Doug's package
is POSIX-compatible; POSIX changed things from the way they were in BSD,
to avoid some namespace collisions.  The main differences are in:

	1) the include file names - <sys/dir.h> became <dirent.h>

and

	2) the structure name - "struct direct" became "struct dirent".