On Wed, 2006-Aug-16 15:54:25 -0700, Micah wrote: >I think you could fake it as follows: > >struct dirent { > __uint32_t d_fileno; /* file number of entry */ > __uint16_t d_reclen; /* length of this record */ > __uint8_t d_type; /* file type, see below */ > __uint8_t d_namlen; /* length of string in d_name */ >#define MAXNAMLEN 255 > char d_name[MAXNAMLEN + 1]; /* name must be no longer than >this */ >#if !__BSD_VISIBLE >#undef MAXNAMLEN >#endif >};
Macro definitions don't nest so this isn't safe. Consider some code that does: #define MAXNAMLEN 1024 ... #include <sys/dirent.h> ... char mybuffer[MAXNAMLEN]; -- Peter Jeremy
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