bug#7247: readdir obsoleteness?

[Ian Martin]

Hi,
just trawling the webpages, I got caught in a loop.  The syscalls page states: 

Of the above, 9 are obsolete, namely getrlimit, oldfstat, oldlstat, 
oldolduname, 
oldstat, olduname, readdir, select and vm86old
...
Then there is __NR_readdir corresponding to old_readdir(), which will  read at 
most one directory entry at a time, and is superseded by  sys_getdents().

however, on the getdents man page: 

DescriptionThis is not the function you are interested in. Look at 
readdir(3)for 
the POSIX conforming C library interface. This page documents the bare kernel 
system call interface. 


???

Cheers,

Ian