MFC r305154: directory(3): Deprecate readdir_r(). Clarify dirent buffers.

In existing implementations including FreeBSD, there is no reason to use
readdir_r() in the common case where potentially multiple threads each list
their own directory. Code using readdir() is simpler.

What's more, although readdir_r() can safely be used on FreeBSD because
NAME_MAX is forced to 255, it cannot be used safely on systems where
{NAME_MAX} is not fixed. As a concrete example, FAT/NTFS filenames can be up
to 255 UTF-16 code units long, which can be up to 765 UTF-8 bytes.

Deprecating readdir_r() in POSIX has been proposed in
http://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=696
and glibc wants to deprecate it as well.
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jilles 2016-09-07 21:09:44 +00:00
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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)directory.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd May 6, 2015
.Dd August 31, 2016
.Dt DIRECTORY 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -69,6 +69,15 @@
.Ft int
.Fn dirfd "DIR *dirp"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Bf -symbolic
The
.Fn readdir_r
interface is deprecated
because it cannot be used correctly unless
.Brq Va NAME_MAX
is a fixed value.
.Ef
.Pp
The
.Fn opendir
function
@ -123,7 +132,13 @@ The
.Fn readdir
function
returns a pointer to the next directory entry.
It returns
The directory entry remains valid until the next call to
.Fn readdir
or
.Fn closedir
on the same
.Em directory stream .
The function returns
.Dv NULL
upon reaching the end of the directory or on error.
In the event of an error,
@ -140,6 +155,13 @@ provides the same functionality as
but the caller must provide a directory
.Fa entry
buffer to store the results in.
The buffer must be large enough for a
.Vt struct dirent
with a
.Va d_name
array with
.Brq Va NAME_MAX
+ 1 elements.
If the read succeeds,
.Fa result
is pointed at the