Re: opendir and dirent.h

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> > I saw that mkdir is a module in gnulib, while opendir (defined in 
> > dirent.h) is not; thus opendir is assumed as standard?
>
> Yes. You can see in the gnulib documentation [1] that no portability problems
> are known for opendir().
>
> This is because the only native Windows port that we consider is mingw,
> and mingw has an opendir() implementation among its runtime libraries.
>
> Bruno
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/opendir.html

However, I then noticed that there's dirent as a module (and opendir is 
declared in dirent.h) so I bet I should import dirent module anyway, 
shouldn't I?

thanks in advance
        Lorenzo

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