.TH DIRENT 4 "Standard Extension"
dirent \- file system independent directory entry
.B "#include <sys/types.h>"
.B "#include <isode/sys.dirent.h>"
Different file system types
may have different directory entries.
file system independent directory entry,
which contains information common to
directory entries in different file system types.
A set of these structures is returned by the
structure is defined below.
is a number which is unique
for each file in the file system.
represents an offset of that directory entry
in the actual file system directory.
is the beginning of the character array
giving the name of the directory entry.
This name is null terminated
characters in addition to the null terminator.
This results in file system independent directory entries
being variable-length entities.
is the record length of this entry.
This length is defined to be the number of bytes
between the beginning of the current entry and the next one,
adjusted so that the next entry
will start on a long boundary.
does not have a simple interpretation
for some file system types
and should not be used directly by applications.