Subject: Re: misc/22101: man (5) dir excludes d_type field in struct dirent description
To: None <netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/09/2003 09:10:56 
> man (5) dir does not list "u_int8_t d_type" as a member of struct dirent.
> As this is an essential member of the structure, excluding it may
> result in confusion to the reader.

It is a NetBSD extension and will only be valid for certain file system
types.  As such it is probably better (IMHO) that it isn't described.

	David

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