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| author | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 2002-11-03 00:59:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 2002-11-03 00:59:09 +0000 |
| commit | 05dab910b0032cab151f3c4507dc04100b1c2ce0 (patch) | |
| tree | c2e532dc6b4876cd1950eef568f5be6477a57487 /manual | |
| parent | 379c9e03af51b7b98aec1f9b04f8f22dec5d4711 (diff) | |
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* manual/filesys.texi (Reading/Closing Directory): Rewrite readdir_r
description to be clearer and to say that *RESULT is set to ENTRY. 2002-10-30 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> * posix/regexec.c (build_trtable): Alloca or malloc dests_node and dests_ch arrays together. Alloca or malloc dest_states, dest_states_word and dest_states_nl arrays together. Free memory on error exit. 2002-10-29 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> * crypt/crypt_util.c (__init_des_r): Initialize current_salt and current_saltbits. 2002-11-02 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/manual/filesys.texi b/manual/filesys.texi index 8aeea93f1d..be1ba79ddb 100644 --- a/manual/filesys.texi +++ b/manual/filesys.texi @@ -418,15 +418,11 @@ prevent conflicts between simultaneously running threads the result is not stored in statically allocated memory. Instead the argument @var{entry} points to a place to store the result. -The return value is @code{0} in case the next entry was read -successfully. In this case a pointer to the result is returned in -*@var{result}. It is not required that *@var{result} is the same as -@var{entry}. If something goes wrong while executing @code{readdir_r} -the function returns a value indicating the error (as described for -@code{readdir}). - -If there are no more directory entries, @code{readdir_r}'s return value is -@code{0}, and *@var{result} is set to @code{NULL}. +Normally @code{readdir_r} returns zero and sets @code{*@var{result}} +to @var{entry}. If there are no more entries in the directory or an +error is detected, @code{readdir_r} sets @code{*@var{result}} to a +null pointer and returns a nonzero error code, also stored in +@code{errno}, as described for @code{readdir}. @strong{Portability Note:} On some systems @code{readdir_r} may not return a NUL terminated string for the file name, even when there is no |