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Hello

If you look at the opendir(3) manpage, you will see that perl's opendir, readdir and closedir are handled directly by their C counterparts. The DIR * data type is defined I believe in dirent.h or in sys/types.h.

I believe implementing opendir, readdir and closedir are straightforward in XS given that this is their calling syntax:

DIR *opendir(const char *name);
int closedir(DIR *dir);
struct dirent *readdir(DIR *dir);
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Did I answer the question?

Aziz,,,

In reply to Re: How *do* they do that? by abstracts
in thread How does Perl handle opendir/readdir/closedir internally? by Cybercosis

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