New platform independent problem

[Andreas Schwab]

Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> writes:

> What platforms use d_ino==0 to mean an empty entry, rather than an entry
> where st_ino must be checked?

This is traditional Unix behaviour.  The original dirent structure (which
was actually struct direct from <sys/dir.h>) directly matched the contents
of the directory file on disk, and an entry was deleted by setting d_ino
to zero.  Modern implementations of the dirent functions hide this detail
from the user and never return entries with d_ino == 0 any more.

Andreas.

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