Name

opendir, fdopendir — open a directory

Synopsis

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>
DIR *opendir( const char *name);
 
DIR *fdopendir( int fd);
 
[Note] Note
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

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.

VERSIONS

fdopendir() is available in glibc since version 2.4.

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.

SEE ALSO

open(2), closedir(3), dirfd(3), readdir(3), rewinddir(3), scandir(3), seekdir(3), telldir(3)

COLOPHON

This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.


  Copyright (C) 1993 David Metcalfe (davidprism.demon.co.uk)

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Modified Sat Jul 24 18:46:01 1993 by Rik Faith (faithcs.unc.edu)
Modified 11 June 1995 by Andries Brouwer (aebcwi.nl)
2007-07-30 Ulrich Drepper <drepperredhat.com>: document fdopendir().