dir(0)                              CLIX                              dir(0)



  NAME

    dir - Format of directories

  SYNOPSIS

    #include <sys/dir.h>

  DESCRIPTION

    A directory behaves exactly like an ordinary file, save that no user may
    write into a directory.  The fact that a file is a directory is indicated
    by a bit in the flag word of its inode entry (see fs).  The structure of a
    directory entry as given in the include file is:

    #ifndef DIRSIZ
    #define DIRSIZ 14
    #endif

    struct direct {
         ushort d_ino;
         char   d_name[DIRSIZ];
    };

    By convention, the first two entries in each directory are for . and ...
    The first is an entry for the directory itself.  The second is for the
    parent directory.  The meaning of .. is modified for the root directory of
    the master file system.  There is no parent, so .. has the same meaning as
    ..

  FILES

    /usr/include/sys/dir.h

  RELATED INFORMATION

    Files:  fs(0)

















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