Hi Jess,

This is a part of POSIX, the only Hurd-specific thing is the use of the
> underlying RPC rather than the standard C function. I don’t see why we
> should
> document things that are universally true rather than Hurd-specific. If you
> want to know how to use dirent then go read a POSIX manual.


I see your point. But this is more about the hurd-specific nature of
dir_readdir than the dirent struct. readdir in glibc returns one dirent at
a time, not something called an array that can’t be reliably treated as
one. That’s what this patch is meant to document.

Andrew

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*Andrew Eggenberger*

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