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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-03-10 11:10:51 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-03-10 11:10:51 +0000
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1998-03-10 19:43 Matthias Urlichs <urlichs@noris.de> * sysdeps/unix/readdir_r.c: zero out *result on EOF. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/readdir64_r.c: Likewise. * manual/filesys/texi: document this.
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@@ -354,6 +354,9 @@ successfully. In this case a pointer to the result is returned in
the function returns a value indicating the error (as described for
@code{readdir}).
+If there are no more directory entries, @code{readdir_r}'s return value is
+@code{0}, and *@var{result} is set to @code{NULL}.
+
@strong{Portability Note:} On some systems, @code{readdir_r} may not
return a terminated string as the file name even if no @code{d_reclen}
element is available in @code{struct dirent} and the file name as the