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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> | 2008-10-29 09:31:40 -0500 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-29 14:54:27 -0500 |
| commit | 2250b3eea518329452606abe0134c4908fd60a2d (patch) | |
| tree | 226b8aa39de2c63906b919d0b79c43392ebd4402 /man3 | |
| parent | 17edb54cdc008a0c3409a9016cf4b3bfe852172b (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-2250b3eea518329452606abe0134c4908fd60a2d.tar.gz | |
readdir.3: Fix text relating to DT_UNKNOWN and 'd_type' support
(This mirrors the previous change to getdents.2)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/readdir.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man3/readdir.3 b/man3/readdir.3 index 8d8e2774ca..f4f084f7f9 100644 --- a/man3/readdir.3 +++ b/man3/readdir.3 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" Rework discussion of non-standard structure fields. .\" 2008-09-11, mtk, Document readdir_r(). .\" -.TH READDIR 3 2008-09-29 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH READDIR 3 2008-10-28 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME readdir, readdir_r \- read a directory .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -199,12 +199,13 @@ If the file type could not be determined, the value is returned in .IR d_type . -Curently, +Currently, .\" kernel 2.6.27 -only ext2, ext3, and ext4 support returning the file type in +.\" The same sentence is in getdents.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 . Since POSIX.1 does not specify the size of the |