The
opendir()
function opens a directory stream corresponding to the
directory name, and returns a pointer to the directory stream.
The stream is positioned at the first entry in the directory.
The
fdopendir()
is like
opendir(),
but returns a directory stream for the directory referred
to by the open file descriptor
fd.
After a successful call to
fdopendir(),
fd
is used internally by the implementation,
and should not otherwise be used by the application.
RETURN VALUE
The
opendir()
and
fdopendir()
functions return a pointer to the directory stream.
On error, NULL is returned, and
errno
is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EACCES
Permission denied.
EBADF
fd
is not a valid file descriptor opened for reading.
EMFILE
Too many file descriptors in use by process.
ENFILE
Too many files are currently open in the system.
ENOENT
Directory does not exist, or name is an empty string.
ENOMEM
Insufficient memory to complete the operation.
ENOTDIR
name is not a directory.
VERSIONS
fdopendir()
is available in glibc since version 2.4.
CONFORMING TO
opendir()
is present on SVr4, 4.3BSD, and specified in POSIX.1-2001.
fdopendir()
is specified in POSIX.1-2008.
NOTES
The underlying file descriptor of the directory stream can be obtained using
dirfd(3).
The
opendir()
function sets the close-on-exec flag for the file descriptor underlying the
DIR *.
The
fdopendir()
function leaves the setting of the close-on-exec
flag unchanged for the file descriptor,
fd.
POSIX.1-200x leaves it unspecified whether a successful call to
fdopendir()
will set the close-on-exec flag for the file descriptor,
fd.
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