Hello Hirofumi, On 3 February 2015 at 10:44, OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> 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? > > Sorry. I meant, "entry[0].d_reclen == 0" check works because fatfs still > have backward compatibility code. However it would not be preferred way. > > In ancient version, fatfs didn't return proper return code, so apps (I > know only use is wine) had to check "entry[0].d_reclen == 0" to know > EOD. > > But for a long time, fatfs returns proper return code like said in > previous email (previous email was wrong on "0 > how many bytes read", > see below instead). I.e., now user can use "ret" as similar to > getdents(), user can know the result as usual from "ret" without > "entry[0].d_reclen == 0". > > while (1) { > ret = ioctl(); > if (ret == -1) { > /* error */ > > if (ret == 0) > /* EOD */ > > /* got entry (would be ret == 1) */ > } Thanks for the clarification. I have one other question. Currently the man page does not document two fields in the __fat_dirent structure: d_ino and d_offset. d_ino is presumably the inode number. But, what is d_offset? Cheers, 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