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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] dirread() and dirreadall()
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:10:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43332BD2.2040007@lanl.gov> (raw)

As I read the man page for dirread(), it kind of implies that it returns 
an array of entries, and also implies that it returns one dir entry at a 
time.

"It [dirread] reads from fd and unpacks the data into an
    array of Dir structures whose address is returned in *buf (see stat(3)
    for the layout of a Dir)."


but


" by   contrast, dirread steps through a directory one read(3) at a time."

Anyways, FWIW, dirread reads in as much as it can, up to a limit of 
DIRMAX bytes, and fails if it can not allocate that much; and dirreadall 
reads in as much as it can, up to a limit of allocatable memory, and 
fails if it can not allocate that much.

For dirreadone(), I think, ya rolls yer own.

apologies if the error here is my inability to parse english.

ron


             reply	other threads:[~2005-09-22 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-22 22:10 Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2005-09-22 22:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-22 22:26   ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-22 22:33     ` Russ Cox
2005-09-22 22:44       ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-22 22:49       ` Ronald G Minnich

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