In article <20011024212335.DBB6111112@www.netbsd.org>,
 <cwlh@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

Your program is wrong, use:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <stddef.h>

int main();

int main()
    {
    int     n;
    char    cwd[MAXPATHLEN+1];
    struct dirent **namelist;

    // get our current working directory
    // to use as an example directory

    getcwd(cwd,MAXPATHLEN);
    printf("cwd = <%s>\n",cwd);

    // then go to get the contents
    // of that directory

    printf("Starting scandir\n");
    n = scandir(cwd,&namelist,NULL,NULL);
    printf("Back from scandir\n");

    printf("There were %d entries\n",n);

    return 0;
    }