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fdopendir (3)
OPENDIR(3) Linux Programmer's Manual OPENDIR(3)
NAME
opendir, fdopendir - open a directory
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>
DIR *opendir(const char *name);
DIR *fdopendir(int fd);
DESCRIPTION
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 suc-
cessful call to fdopendir(), fd is used internally by the implementa-
tion, and should not otherwise be used by the application.
RETURN VALUE
The opendir() and fdopendir() functions return a pointer to the direc-
tory stream. On error, NULL is returned, and errno is set appropri-
ately.
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 under consideration for inclusion in the next version of
POSIX.1
NOTES
The underlying file descriptor of the directory stream can be obtained
using dirfd(3).
SEE ALSO
open(2), closedir(3), dirfd(3), readdir(3), rewinddir(3), scandir(3),
seekdir(3), telldir(3)
2007-07-30 OPENDIR(3)
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