Re: directory traversal

[Paul Davis <pbd op net>]

>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.

on my system, its part of glibc. i think it does come from sysv
originally, but anyone using glibc has it available. i suspect that
glib has some equivalent.

--p