Bug#210861: libc6: readdir always returns dtype as unknown

[Jacob Kolding <jacob@omnia.dk>]

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 13:38, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 11:33, Jacob Kolding wrote:
> > when using the readdir function from <dirent.h> to get dirents the
> > dtype member of dirent is always returned as unknown.
> 
> Please supply a test program to demonstrate the problem.  We also need
> some more information: what filesystem are you using, and which kernel
> version?
> 
> p.
> 

I'm running ext2 on linux 2.2.20 but a friend of mine is running
reiserfs on 2.4.22 and have the same problem.

/Jacob Kolding

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(){
  dirent *theEnts;
  DIR *theDir;
  theDir = opendir(".");
  
  while((theEnts = readdir(theDir)) != NULL){
    printf("name: %s, type: ", theEnts->d_name);
    switch(theEnts->d_type){
    case DT_UNKNOWN:
      printf("UNKNOWN");
      break;
    case DT_FIFO:
      printf("FIFO");
      break;
    case DT_CHR:
      printf("CHR");
      break;
    case DT_DIR:
      printf("DIR");
      break;
    case DT_BLK:
      printf("BLK");
      break;
    case DT_REG:
      printf("REG");
      break;
    case DT_LNK:
      printf("LNK");
      break;
    case DT_SOCK:
      printf("SOCK");
      break;
    case DT_WHT:
      printf("WHT");
      break;
    }
    printf("\n");
  }
}