DIRECTORY(3)                         BSD                          DIRECTORY(3)



NAME
     opendir, readdir, telldir, seekdir, rewinddir, closedir - directory
     operations

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <sys/dir.h>

     DIR *opendir(filename)
     char *filename;

     struct direct *readdir(dirp)
     DIR *dirp;

     long telldir(dirp)
     DIR *dirp;

     seekdir(dirp, loc)
     DIR *dirp;
     long loc;

     rewinddir(dirp)
     DIR *dirp;

     closedir(dirp)
     DIR *dirp;

DESCRIPTION
     opendir opens the directory named by filename and associates a
     "directory"stream with it.  opendir returns a pointer to be used to
     identify the directory stream in subsequent operations.  The pointer NULL
     is returned if filename cannot be accessed, or if it cannot malloc(3)
     enough memory to hold the whole thing.

     readdir returns a pointer to the next directory entry.  It returns NULL
     upon reaching the end of the directory or detecting an invalid seekdir
     operation.

     telldir returns the current location associated with the named directory
     stream.

     seekdir sets the position of the next readdir operation on the directory
     stream.  The new position reverts to the one associated with the
     directory stream when the telldir operation was performed.  Values
     returned by telldir are good only for the lifetime of the DIR pointer
     from which they are derived.  If the directory is closed and then
     reopened, the telldir value may be invalidated due to undetected
     directory compaction.  It is safe to use a previous telldir value
     immediately after a call to opendir and before any calls to readdir.

     rewinddir resets the position of the named directory stream to the
     beginning of the directory.

     closedir closes the named directory stream and frees the structure
     associated with the DIR pointer.

     Sample code that searchs a directory for entry "name" is

          len = strlen(name);
          dirp = opendir(".");
          for (dp = readdir(dirp); dp != NULL; dp = readdir(dirp))

               if (dp->d_namlen == len && !strcmp(dp->d_name, name)) {
                    closedir(dirp);
                    return FOUND;
               }
          closedir(dirp);
          return NOT_FOUND;

SEE ALSO
     open(2), close(2), read(2), lseek(2), dir(5)