From: erikyyy AT studbox DOT uni-stuttgart DOT de
Message-ID: <19980526221202.B1173@vulcain.yyydom>
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 22:12:02 +0200
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: BUG in readdir libc function
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my linux libc docu sais, that readdir returns 0 on error
and may set errno to

`EBADF'           The DIRSTREAM argument is not valid. 

since 0 may also mean, that the directory is at the end, there must
be a way to distinguish between those two cases.

i think the right way to do this is

if (!readdir(.......)) if (errno) die("system shit");
	else printf("directory ends");

this doesn't work, because:


readdir DOESN'T SET errno TO 0, if it returns 0 and the
directory is at its end !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

byebye
Erik

PS: please reply me, too. (ML too much traffic)

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