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1.1     ! root        1: .TH DIRENT 4 "Standard Extension"
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: dirent \- file system independent directory entry
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B "#include <sys/types.h>"
        !             6: .br
        !             7: .B "#include <isode/sys.dirent.h>"
        !             8: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             9: Different file system types
        !            10: may have different directory entries.
        !            11: The
        !            12: .I dirent
        !            13: structure defines a
        !            14: file system independent directory entry,
        !            15: which contains information common to
        !            16: directory entries in different file system types.
        !            17: A set of these structures is returned by the
        !            18: .IR getdents (2)
        !            19: system call.
        !            20: .P
        !            21: The
        !            22: .I dirent
        !            23: structure is defined below.
        !            24: .sp
        !            25: struct dirent  {
        !            26: .br
        !            27:                        long                    d_ino;
        !            28: .br
        !            29:                        off_t                   d_off;
        !            30: .br
        !            31:                        unsigned short          d_reclen;
        !            32: .br
        !            33:                        char                    d_name[1];
        !            34: .br
        !            35:                };
        !            36: .P
        !            37: .sp
        !            38: The field
        !            39: .I d_ino
        !            40: is a number which is unique
        !            41: for each file in the file system.
        !            42: The field
        !            43: .I d_off\^
        !            44: represents an offset of that directory entry
        !            45: in the actual file system directory.
        !            46: The field
        !            47: .I d_name
        !            48: is the beginning of the character array
        !            49: giving the name of the directory entry.
        !            50: This name is null terminated
        !            51: and may have at most
        !            52: .SM NAME_MAX
        !            53: characters in addition to the null terminator.
        !            54: This results in file system independent directory entries
        !            55: being variable-length entities.
        !            56: The value of
        !            57: .I d_reclen
        !            58: is the record length of this entry.
        !            59: This length is defined to be the number of bytes
        !            60: between the beginning of the current entry and the next one,
        !            61: adjusted so that the next entry
        !            62: will start on a long boundary.
        !            63: .SH FILES
        !            64: \*(IDsys.dirent.h
        !            65: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            66: getdents(2).
        !            67: .SH WARNING
        !            68: The field
        !            69: .I d_off\^
        !            70: does not have a simple interpretation
        !            71: for some file system types
        !            72: and should not be used directly by applications.

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