The glibc wrapper for getdents64() uses ssize_t. And let's use it also for getdents(). It makes more sense than int: It's a count of bytes, and can report an error (-1). Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@xxxxxxxxx> --- man2/getdents.2 | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/getdents.2 b/man2/getdents.2 index a187fbcef..d660f1bc1 100644 --- a/man2/getdents.2 +++ b/man2/getdents.2 @@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ getdents, getdents64 \- get directory entries .SH SYNOPSIS .nf -.BI "int getdents(unsigned int " fd ", struct linux_dirent *" dirp , +.BI "ssize_t getdents(unsigned int " fd ", struct linux_dirent *" dirp , .BI " unsigned int " count ); .PP .BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */" .B #include <dirent.h> .PP -.BI "int getdents64(unsigned int " fd ", struct linux_dirent64 *" dirp , +.BI "ssize_t getdents64(unsigned int " fd ", struct linux_dirent64 *" dirp , .BI " unsigned int " count ); .fi .PP @@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ inode# file type d_reclen d_off d_name #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> +#include <sys/types.h> #define handle_error(msg) \e do { perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0) @@ -282,7 +283,8 @@ struct linux_dirent { int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { - int fd, nread; + int fd; + ssize_t nread; char buf[BUF_SIZE]; struct linux_dirent *d; char d_type; @@ -301,7 +303,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) printf("\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- nread=%d \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\en", nread); printf("inode# file type d_reclen d_off d_name\en"); - for (int bpos = 0; bpos < nread;) { + for (ssize_t bpos = 0; bpos < nread;) { d = (struct linux_dirent *) (buf + bpos); printf("%8ld ", d\->d_ino); d_type = *(buf + bpos + d\->d_reclen \- 1); -- 2.28.0