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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys getdents.2
In-Reply-To: <199907300926.CAA26887@freefall.freebsd.org> from Mike Pritchard at "Jul 30, 1999 02:26:51 am"
To: mpp@FreeBSD.org (Mike Pritchard)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 04:44:43 -0500 (CDT)
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> mpp         1999/07/30 02:26:51 PDT
> 
>   Added files:
>     lib/libc/sys         getdents.2 
>   Log:
>   Add a manual page for getdents(2).  This was taken from NetBSD, but
>   still needs some cleanup which is why it hasn't been added to the
>   Makefile yet.

After looking around a bit, it appears that getdents(2) just sets
up a call to getdirentries(2), passing the same arguments and
returning the same data.  So why do we have two identical system
calls with different names?  Let me guess, POSIX?
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@FreeBSD.ORG or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net


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