Reading a directory
- by paleman
Hi, I'm trying to solve exercise from K&R, it's about reading directories.This task is system dependent because it uses system calls.In the book example authors say that their example is written for Version 7 and System V UNIX systems and that they used the directory information in the header < sys/dir.h,which looks like this:
#ifndef DIRSIZ
#define DIRSIZ 14
#endif
struct direct { /* directory entry */
ino_t d_ino; /* inode number */
char d_name[DIRSIZ]; /* long name does not have '\0' */
};
On this system they use 'struct direct' combined with 'read' function to retrieve a directory entry, which consist of file name and inode number.
.....
struct direct dirbuf; /* local directory structure */
while(read(dp->fd, (char *) &dirbuf, sizeof(dirbuf)
== sizeof(dirbuf) {
.....
}
.....
I suppose this works fine on UNIX and Linux systems, but what I want to do is modify this so it works on Windows XP.
Is there some structure in Windows like 'struct direct' so I can use it
with 'read' function and if there is what is the header name where it is
defined?
Or maybe Windows requires completely different approach?
