From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Subject: Re: I need help with telldir and seekdir
30 Oct 1998 18:46:05 -0800
Message-ID: <9810292207.AA00625.cygnus.gnu-win32@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu>
References: <8811-Wed28Oct1998162420+0100-vzell AT de DOT oracle DOT com>
To: "Dr. Volker Zell" <vzell AT de DOT oracle DOT com>
Cc: e952508 AT anubis DOT ecci DOT ucr DOT ac DOT cr, Cygnus <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

"Dr. Volker Zell" <vzell AT de DOT oracle DOT com> writes:
> 
> Hi
> 
> >I'm trying to port code from unix to win32 with cygwin32.  Everything
> >worked right until a tried to compile a file wich included "dirent.h"
> >and tried to use seekdir and telldir.
> >    Can somebody tellme either  if  those functions are available in
> >other  header file, or  if i should implement them, and if that's the
> >case, how can i do it.

seekdir and telldir are not part of POSIX (and obviously not part of the
ANSI C library), and any code using these (presumably expecting a BSD 4.3 
environment) is inherently non-portable to POSIX systems.

More often than not, the combination of telldir and seekdir is simply used 
as a replacement for rewinddir, which *is* POSIX and is part of cygwin. 

Older versions of mc (eg,. 4.1.35) didn't use these, so must be recent
addition, and I would assume quite easy to work around.

Regards,
Mumit

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