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-.\" Copyright (C) 1995 Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
-.\"
-.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
-.\"
-.\" Written 11 June 1995 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
-.\" Modified 22 July 1995 by Michael Chastain <mec@duracef.shout.net>:
-.\" In 1.3.X, returns only one entry each time; return value is different.
-.\" Modified 2004-12-01, mtk, fixed headers listed in SYNOPSIS
-.\"
-.TH readdir 2 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
-.SH NAME
-readdir \- read directory entry
-.SH LIBRARY
-Standard C library
-.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.nf
-.BR "#include <sys/syscall.h>" " /* Definition of " SYS_* " constants */"
-.B #include <unistd.h>
-.P
-.BI "int syscall(SYS_readdir, unsigned int " fd ,
-.BI " struct old_linux_dirent *" dirp ", unsigned int " count );
-.fi
-.P
-.IR Note :
-There is no definition of
-.BR "struct old_linux_dirent" ;
-see NOTES.
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-This is not the function you are interested in.
-Look at
-.BR readdir (3)
-for the POSIX conforming C library interface.
-This page documents the bare kernel system call interface,
-which is superseded by
-.BR getdents (2).
-.P
-.BR readdir ()
-reads one
-.I old_linux_dirent
-structure from the directory
-referred to by the file descriptor
-.I fd
-into the buffer pointed to by
-.IR dirp .
-The argument
-.I count
-is ignored; at most one
-.I old_linux_dirent
-structure is read.
-.P
-The
-.I old_linux_dirent
-structure is declared (privately in Linux kernel file
-.BR fs/readdir.c )
-as follows:
-.P
-.in +4n
-.EX
-struct old_linux_dirent {
- unsigned long d_ino; /* inode number */
- unsigned long d_offset; /* offset to this \fIold_linux_dirent\fP */
- unsigned short d_namlen; /* length of this \fId_name\fP */
- char d_name[1]; /* filename (null\-terminated) */
-}
-.EE
-.in
-.P
-.I d_ino
-is an inode number.
-.I d_offset
-is the distance from the start of the directory to this
-.IR old_linux_dirent .
-.I d_reclen
-is the size of
-.IR d_name ,
-not counting the terminating null byte (\[aq]\e0\[aq]).
-.I d_name
-is a null-terminated filename.
-.SH RETURN VALUE
-On success, 1 is returned.
-On end of directory, 0 is returned.
-On error, \-1 is returned, and
-.I errno
-is set to indicate the error.
-.SH ERRORS
-.TP
-.B EBADF
-Invalid file descriptor
-.IR fd .
-.TP
-.B EFAULT
-Argument points outside the calling process's address space.
-.TP
-.B EINVAL
-Result buffer is too small.
-.TP
-.B ENOENT
-No such directory.
-.TP
-.B ENOTDIR
-File descriptor does not refer to a directory.
-.SH VERSIONS
-You will need to define the
-.I old_linux_dirent
-structure yourself.
-However, probably you should use
-.BR readdir (3)
-instead.
-.P
-This system call does not exist on x86-64.
-.SH STANDARDS
-Linux.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR getdents (2),
-.BR readdir (3)