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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.\" @(#)directory.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd May 6, 2015
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.Dd August 31, 2016
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.Dt DIRECTORY 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Ft int
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.Fn dirfd "DIR *dirp"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Bf -symbolic
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The
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.Fn readdir_r
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interface is deprecated
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because it cannot be used correctly unless
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.Brq Va NAME_MAX
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is a fixed value.
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.Ef
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn opendir
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function
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.Fn readdir
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function
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returns a pointer to the next directory entry.
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It returns
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The directory entry remains valid until the next call to
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.Fn readdir
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or
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.Fn closedir
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on the same
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.Em directory stream .
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The function returns
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.Dv NULL
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upon reaching the end of the directory or on error.
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In the event of an error,
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but the caller must provide a directory
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.Fa entry
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buffer to store the results in.
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The buffer must be large enough for a
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.Vt struct dirent
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with a
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.Va d_name
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array with
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.Brq Va NAME_MAX
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+ 1 elements.
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If the read succeeds,
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.Fa result
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is pointed at the
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