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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> | 2008-10-29 09:20:44 -0500 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-29 14:54:26 -0500 |
| commit | 17edb54cdc008a0c3409a9016cf4b3bfe852172b (patch) | |
| tree | f22f594f190f03092aac3c09a8b51c2ca9501ede | |
| parent | ea45ad970df66f93b4cc886b59499801f81bcdc8 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-17edb54cdc008a0c3409a9016cf4b3bfe852172b.tar.gz | |
getdents.2: Fix text relating to DT_UNKNOWN and 'd_type' support
Some file systems provide partial support for 'dt_type',
returning DT_UNKNOWN for cases they don't support.
Update the discussion of 'd_type' and DT_UNKNOWN to
support this.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/getdents.2 | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man2/getdents.2 b/man2/getdents.2 index 90a3d37bb3..ca434e0f9a 100644 --- a/man2/getdents.2 +++ b/man2/getdents.2 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" Modified 22 July 1995 by Michael Chastain <mec@duracef.shout.net>: .\" Derived from 'readdir.2'. .\" Modified Tue Oct 22 08:11:14 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> -.TH GETDENTS 2 2009-10-02 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH GETDENTS 2 2008-10-28 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME getdents \- get directory entries .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -115,12 +115,13 @@ This is a Unix domain socket. .B DT_UNKNOWN The file type is unknown. .PP -Curently, +Currently, .\" kernel 2.6.27 -only ext2, ext3, and ext4 support returning the file type in +.\" The same sentence is in readdir.2 +only some file systems (among them: ext2, etx3, and ext4) +have full support returning the file type in .IR d_type . -On other file systems, -this field is always set to +All applications must properly handle a return of .BR DT_UNKNOWN . .SH "RETURN VALUE" On success, the number of bytes read is returned. |