direct(4)               (BSD Compatibility Package)               direct(4)

NAME
     direct - file system independent directory entry

SYNOPSIS
     #include <direct.h>

DESCRIPTION
     Different file system types may have different directory entries. The
     direct structure defines a file system independent directory entry,
     which contains information common to directory entries in different
     file system types. A set of these structures is returned by the
     readdir(3C) system call.

     The direct structure is defined in this example:

     struct  direct {
             ulong  dino;
             ushort dreclen;
             ushort dnamlen;
             char    dname[NAMEMAX + 1];
     };

     The dino is a number which is unique for each file in the file sys-
     tem. The field dnamelen is the length of the string in dname. The
     field dname is the beginning of the character array giving the name
     of the directory entry. This name is null terminated and may have at
     most NAMEMAX characters. This results in file system independent
     directory entries being variable length entities. The value of
     dreclen is the record length of this entry. This length is defined to
     be the number of bytes between the current entry and the next one, so
     that the next structure will be suitably aligned.

SEE ALSO
     readdir(3C).





















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