Re: directory traversal

[Chris Wareham <chris wareham iosystems co uk>]

Paul Davis wrote:
> > Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> >
> > > I want to recursively traverse a directory. It seems dumb to write
> > > this from scratch (and easy to goof on corner cases), but I haven't
> > > found anything in glib / gtk / etc. that seems to address it. (Yeah,
> > > this is more of a glib question than a gtk question, I guess.)
> >
> > The following proglet exercises a function called read_directory(),
> > which traverses a directory. I often use it as a template for other
> > programs requiring this functionality. The section on file utility
> > functions in the Glib documentation may be worth a read as well.
>
> man ftw

$ man ftw
man: no entry for ftw in the manual.
$ uname
NetBSD

I guess ftw must be some sort of SysV specific thing.

Chris

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