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+.\" Hey Emacs! This file is -*- nroff -*- source.
+.\"
+.\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
+.\" Portions extracted from /usr/include/dirent.h are:
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+.TH GETDIRENTRIES 3 1993-07-22 "BSD/MISC" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+getdirentries \- get directory entries in a filesystem independent format
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B #define _BSD_SOURCE
+or
+.B #define _SVID_SOURCE
+.br
+.B #include <dirent.h>
+.sp
+.BI "ssize_t getdirentries(int " fd ", char *" buf ", size_t " nbytes
+.BI ", off_t *" basep );
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Read directory entries from the directory specified by
+.I fd
+into
+.IR buf .
+At most
+.I nbytes
+are read.  Reading starts at offset
+.RI * basep ,
+and
+.RI * basep
+is updated with the new position after reading.
+.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.B getdirentries
+returns the number of bytes read or zero when at the end of the directory.
+If an error occurs, \-1 is returned, and
+.I errno
+is set appropriately.
+.SH ERRORS
+See the Linux library source code for details.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR lseek (2),
+.BR open (2)