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);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see [feature_test_macros(7)):
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fdopendir():
Since glibc 2.10:
_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700 || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
Before glibc 2.10:
_GNU_SOURCE
Description
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The opendir() function opens a directory stream corresponding to the directory name,
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and returns a pointer to the directory stream.
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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.
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.