scandir(3B)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | USAGE | SEE ALSO | NOTES

NAME

scandir, alphasort- scan a directory

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/cc [ flag ... ] file ...
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/dir.h>

char *dirname;
struct direct *(*namelist[]);
int (*select(.),(*dcomp)();

int scandir(dirname, namelist, select, dcomp);


struct direct **d1, **d2;

int alphasort(d1, d2);

DESCRIPTION

The scandir() function reads the directory dirname and builds an array of pointers to directory entries using malloc(3C). The second parameter is a pointer to an array of structure pointers. The third parameter is a pointer to a routine which is called with a pointer to a directory entry and should return a non zero value if the directory entry should be included in the array. If this pointer is NULL, then all the directory entries will be included. The last argument is a pointer to a routine which is passed to qsort(3C), which sorts the completed array. If this pointer is NULL, the array is not sorted.

The alphasort() function is a routine that sorts the array alphabetically.

RETURN VALUES

The scandir() function returns the number of entries in the array and a pointer to the array through the parameter namelist. The scandir() function returns -1 if the directory cannot be opened for reading or if malloc(3C) cannot allocate enough memory to hold all the data structures.

USAGE

The scandir() and alphasort() functions have transitional interfaces for 64-bit file offsets. See lf64(5).

SEE ALSO

getdents(2), malloc(3C), qsort(3C), readdir(3B), readdir(3C), lf64(5)

NOTES

Use of these interfaces should be restricted to only applications written on BSD platforms. Use of these interfaces with any of the system libraries or in multi-thread applications is unsupported.

SunOS 5.7  Last Revised 28 Jan 1998

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | USAGE | SEE ALSO | NOTES