Bug#210861: marked as done (libc6: readdir always returns dtype as unknown)
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From: Jacob Kolding <jacob@omnia.dk>
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Subject: libc6: readdir always returns dtype as unknown
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Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2-7
Severity: normal
when using the readdir function from <dirent.h> to get dirents the
dtype member of dirent is always returned as unknown.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.2.20 #1 Sat Apr 20 11:45:28 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl
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Subject: Re: Bug#210861: libc6: readdir always returns dtype as unknown
From: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
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On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:20, Jacob Kolding wrote:
> In that case readdir seems like a rather useless function if it is so
> dependent on kernel versions an fs types.
>
> Do you know of any other functions that can be used instead?
> My goal is to have a program that works with any
> fs type and kernel version.
If readdir() returns d_type == DT_UNKNOWN, you need to call stat()
yourself in order to determine the type of object. I'm not aware of any
interface provided by glibc that will do this for you.
I'm closing this bug, since it seems that glibc is behaving correctly.
p.
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