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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 1993-05-29 22:59:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 1993-05-29 22:59:02 +0000 |
| commit | c6f8753114cc4f2fe1060ef0d36908eeff72fe25 (patch) | |
| tree | 12a4d7d8c25b5d3ed174b114fb2bb0f65fa9bacb /manual/filesys.texi | |
| parent | 6e56a68c84a982753d41982c577e8c1c1636decc (diff) | |
Clean up portability note about . and .. in readdir.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual/filesys.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/filesys.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/manual/filesys.texi b/manual/filesys.texi index 03fa6a8b30..f6794835df 100644 --- a/manual/filesys.texi +++ b/manual/filesys.texi @@ -266,8 +266,8 @@ This structure is statically allocated and can be rewritten by a subsequent call. @strong{Portability Note:} On some systems, @code{readdir} may not -return entries for @file{.} and @file{..}, though you can always use -@file{.} and @file{..} in file names. @xref{File Name Resolution}. +return entries for @file{.} and @file{..}, even though these are always +valid file names in any directory. @xref{File Name Resolution}. If there are no more entries in the directory or an error is detected, @code{readdir} returns a null pointer. The following @code{errno} error |