gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (05/25/90)
In article <1990May24.172957.7421@dg-rtp.dg.com> goudreau@larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes: >If portability between Sys V and BSD is your goal, then the readdir() >& stat() approach will put you up the same kind of creek as ls will; >the two systems use a different interface to readdir(). (In fact, >my V.2 manual doesn't even show a readdir() entry at all; it appears >the function didn't appear in System V until V.3 was released.) However, you can obtain a portable implementation of an SVR3-compatible dirent library from me for use on UNIX systems like pre-4.4BSD flavors that don't have a POSIX-compliant dirent library. You can edit your Makefiles to use this add-on library (and headers) until such time as your native system is brought up to date.