Hello Hirofumi, Thanks for checking the page over. On 3 February 2015 at 09:51, OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Hello Heinrich and Ogawa, > > Hi, > >> On 23 January 2015 at 20:54, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> wrote: >>> The ioctl(2) system call may be used to retrieve information about >>> the fat file system and to set file attributes. >>> >>> This new manpage describes the details. >> >> @Ogawa, as the FAT maintainer, might you be willing to review this page? > > > for (;;) { > > /* > * Read next directory entry. > */ > ret = ioctl( fd, VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_BOTH, entry); > > /* > * If an error occurs, the return value is -1. > * If d_reclen is zero, the end of the directory > * list has been reached. > */ > if (ret == -1 || entry[0].d_reclen == 0) > break; > > Quick reviewed, and looks good. However, entry[0].d_reclen == 0 works as > backward compatibility though. The example might be good to use usual > way of getdents(). > > I.e., "ret" means > -1 == error > 0 == EOD > 0 > how many bytes read Sorry -- I do not really understand what you mean here "entry[0].d_reclen == 0 works as backward compatibility though"). Is the line if (ret == -1 || entry[0].d_reclen == 0) incorrect? If yes, what should the code look like? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html