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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/new_chapters/files.t | 28 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/new_chapters/files.t b/doc/new_chapters/files.t index f79c161350..40c31db4dc 100644 --- a/doc/new_chapters/files.t +++ b/doc/new_chapters/files.t @@ -41,10 +41,10 @@ The directives provided by the files and directories manager are: @item @code{chown} - Changes the owner and/ or group of a file @item @code{utime} - Change access and/or modification times of an inode @item @code{ftruncate} - Truncate a file to a specified length -@itme @code{truncate} - Truncate a file to a specified length +@item @code{truncate} - Truncate a file to a specified length @item @code{pathconf} - Gets configuration values for files @item @code{fpathconf} - Get configuration values for files -@itme @code{mknod} - Create a directory +@item @code{mknod} - Create a directory @end itemize @section Background @@ -1390,14 +1390,34 @@ long getdents( @subheading STATUS CODES: +on sucess, the number of bytes read is returned. On end of directory, +0 is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and @code{errno} is set +appropriately. + @table @b -@item E -The +@item EBADF +Invalid file descriptor @code{fd}. + +@item EFAULT +Argument points outside the calling process's address space. + +@item EINVAL +Result buffer is too small. + +@item ENOENT +No such directory. + +@item ENOTDIR +File descriptor does not refer to a directory. @end table @subheading DESCRIPTION: +@code{getdents} reads several @code{dirent} structures from the directory +pointed by @code{fd} into the memory area pointed to by @code{dirp}. The +parameter @code{count} is the size of the memory area. + @subheading NOTES: NONE |