opendir (3)
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NAME
opendir, fdopendir - open a directorySYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h> DIR *opendir(const char *name); DIR *fdopendir(int fd);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
fdopendir():
-
- Since glibc 2.10:
- _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700 || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
- Before glibc 2.10:
- _GNU_SOURCE
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() function is like opendir(), but returns a directory stream for the directory referred to by the open file descriptor fd. After a successful call to fdopendir(), fd is used internally by the implementation, and should not otherwise be used by the application.
RETURN VALUE
The opendir() and fdopendir() functions return a pointer to the directory stream. On error, NULL is returned, and errno is set appropriately.ERRORS
- EACCES
- Permission denied.
- EBADF
- fd is not a valid file descriptor opened for reading.
- EMFILE
- The per-process limit on the number of open file descriptors has been reached.
- ENFILE
- The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached.
- 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.ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).| Interface | Attribute | Value |
| opendir(), fdopendir() | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
CONFORMING TO
opendir() is present on SVr4, 4.3BSD, and specified in POSIX.1-2001. fdopendir() is specified in POSIX.1-2008.NOTES
The underlying file descriptor of the directory stream can be obtained using dirfd(3).The opendir() function sets the close-on-exec flag for the file descriptor underlying the DIR *. The fdopendir() function leaves the setting of the close-on-exec flag unchanged for the file descriptor, fd. POSIX.1-200x leaves it unspecified whether a successful call to fdopendir() will set the close-on-exec flag for the file descriptor, fd.