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getdents.2: Mention glibc support for getdents64() 

Support was added in glibc 2.30.

Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Petr Vorel 2019-10-07 15:53:15 +02:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ getdents, getdents64 \- get directory entries
.fi
.PP
.IR Note :
There are no glibc wrappers for these system calls; see NOTES.
There is no glibc wrapper for getdents().
Wrapper for getdents64() was added in glibc 2.30; see NOTES.
.SH DESCRIPTION
These are not the interfaces you are interested in.
Look at
@ -203,9 +204,11 @@ File descriptor does not refer to a directory.
SVr4.
.\" SVr4 documents additional ENOLINK, EIO error conditions.
.SH NOTES
Glibc does not provide a wrapper for these system calls; call them using
Library support for getdents64() was added in glibc 2.30;
there is no glibc wrapper for getdents();
call getdents() (or getdents64() on earlier versions) requires using
.BR syscall (2).
You will need to define the
In that case you will need to define the
.I linux_dirent
or
.I linux_dirent64