kLIBC declares both in dirent.h and provides a backend __libc_Back_ioDirGetEntries for them. However, it only defines a body for getdirents whose signature is like getdents (i.e. only the name differs). This function is not known to Google though (and is absent in any kLIBC header so inaccessible to programs via normal means). It is, however, exported from the LIBC DLL.
This all looks strange and my guess is that there was just a strange mixup when naming it. It should have been getdents and there should also have beemn the getdirentries definiton (which is missing at all). Given that Knut (the author) is completely unresponsive these days, this will remain a guess.
I will fix that by providing the missing definition and by renaming the existing one. We will have to keep the old one though, since it is exported from the DLL. Anyway, this requres #17 to be done as it changes ABI by adding new exports.
This was found when working on #21 (-Wmissing-prototypes).
There is Linux
getdentsandgetdirentries. They are also present in FreeBSD.kLIBC declares both in
dirent.hand provides a backend__libc_Back_ioDirGetEntriesfor them. However, it only defines a body forgetdirentswhose signature is likegetdents(i.e. only the name differs). This function is not known to Google though (and is absent in any kLIBC header so inaccessible to programs via normal means). It is, however, exported from the LIBC DLL.This all looks strange and my guess is that there was just a strange mixup when naming it. It should have been
getdentsand there should also have beemn thegetdirentriesdefiniton (which is missing at all). Given that Knut (the author) is completely unresponsive these days, this will remain a guess.I will fix that by providing the missing definition and by renaming the existing one. We will have to keep the old one though, since it is exported from the DLL. Anyway, this requres #17 to be done as it changes ABI by adding new exports.
This was found when working on #21 (
-Wmissing-prototypes).