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Bug 14795 bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/[email protected] 1 participant 2 messages Jun 25, 2014 – Apr 12, 2015 2 messages not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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--- Comment #2 from [email protected] --- This bug is obsolete. Please test against a newer kernel to see if it still is valid.
Cheers Nick

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--- Comment #3 from Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> --- (In reply to blah from comment #0)

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It shows source creating a struct instead of including, which doesn't work when the dents can be 64 or 32 bit,

The problem here is that there is no libc support, so, nothing to incude.

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it also shows the d_type byte being
after the offset, but it is before it in bits/dirent.h

This is only true for the 64-bit structure/getdents64(). For getdents(), the description is accurate, ad the example code demonstartes.

The real problem is that the page does not document getdents64() and the structure that it uses. I've now added a description to the page, which will go out with the next release.

Cheers,

Michael

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