OPENDIR(3P)

💖 OPENDIR(3P) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the POSIX Programmer's Manual page for opendir 🫶 this is the 3P section, so it's the POSIX girly, not the Linux one.

✨ PROLOG ✨

so like, a lil heads up before we dive in 🌸

this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. the Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, pls go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior 💅. and also, the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. so. vibe check first, bestie 😭

✨ NAME ✨

opendir — open directory associated with file descriptor

(yes that's the whole name section, she's short and she's iconic 👑)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <dirent.h>

DIR *opendir(const char *dirname);

literally two lines. slay. ✨

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the thing — this page is basically a redirect 💀

Refer to fdopendir().

that's it. that's the description. go read fdopendir() bestie, she has the lore 🦋

✨ COPYRIGHT ✨

okay this part is the legal girly so we're being respectful and exact 🙈

portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

and like, in the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard — the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document 👑. the original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. to report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

IEEE/The Open Group — 2017 — and the page is OPENDIR(3P) 💜

that's the whole thing bestie, go forth and fdopendir() responsibly 🎀✨