SCANDIR(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual SCANDIR(3P)PROLOG
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the correspond-
ing Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
NAME
scandir -- scan a directory
SYNOPSIS
#include <dirent.h>
int scandir(const char *dir, struct dirent ***namelist,
int (*sel)(const struct dirent *),
int (*compar)(const struct dirent **, const struct dirent **));
DESCRIPTION
Refer to alphasort().
COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the
event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Stan-
dard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .
Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source
files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .
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OPENDIR(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual OPENDIR(3P)PROLOG
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the correspond-
ing Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
NAME
opendir -- open directory associated with file descriptor
SYNOPSIS
#include <dirent.h>
DIR *opendir(const char *dirname);
DESCRIPTION
Refer to fdopendir().
COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the
event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Stan-
dard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .
Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source
files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .
IEEE /The Open Group 2013 OPENDIR(3P)
I'm writing a file manager program using FC3 and C, and I'm having a problem displaying the stat info of subdirectories.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <dirent.h>
int main()
{
char *dirname = "mydirectory";
struct dirent **namelist;
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Currently, Im trying to redesign some Unix-based C code to work on the Windows operating system and one problem I ran into when compiling was that the compiler failed to recognise scandir() (from my original Linux code)
Im aware that scandir() is a Unix-based function, so is there an equivalent... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone;
I am trying to compile and execute a test program I wrote that calls scandir and it seems to not like my prototype. The Documentation on SUN for this function is clear, but I am missed something..... and I can't figure it out;
I am using
cc -gv -osaveas saveas.c
on Sun... (1 Reply)