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CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008; other minor changes.

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.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
.\"
.TH DIRFD 3 2008-07-02 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH DIRFD 3 2008-08-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
dirfd \- get directory stream file descriptor
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ is called.
On success, a non-negative file descriptor is returned.
On error, \-1 is returned.
.SH ERRORS
The upcoming POSIX.1 revision specifies two errors,
POSIX.1-2008 specifies two errors,
neither of which is returned by the current
.\" glibc 2.8
implementation.
@ -69,11 +69,9 @@ does not refer to a valid directory stream.
The implementation does not support the association of a file
descriptor with a directory.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
This is a BSD extension, present in 4.3BSD-Reno, not in 4.2BSD.
It is present in libc5 (since 5.1.2) and in glibc2.
.\" As at 2006:
This function is under consideration for inclusion in
a future version of POSIX.1.
POSIX.1-2008.
This function was a BSD extension, present in 4.3BSD-Reno, not in 4.2BSD.
.\" It is present in libc5 (since 5.1.2) and in glibc2.
.SH NOTES
The prototype for
.BR dirfd ()