use warnings; use strict; use Inline C => <<'END_OF_C'; void myreaddir(SV* sv_dirn) { Inline_Stack_Vars; Inline_Stack_Reset; int fd = open( SvPVx(sv_dirn, PL_na), O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY|O_NOFOLLOW); if (fd<0) Inline_Stack_Return(0); DIR* dir = fdopendir(fd); if (dir==NULL) Inline_Stack_Return(0); struct dirent *dp; while ( (dp=readdir(dir)) != NULL ) Inline_Stack_Push(sv_2mortal( newSVpvf("%s", dp->d_name) )); if( closedir(dir)!=0 ) Inline_Stack_Return(0); Inline_Stack_Done; } int _xs_myfdopendir(SV* sv_dirn, SV* sv_hnd) { int fd = open( SvPVx(sv_dirn, PL_na), O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY|O_NOFOLLOW); if (fd<0) return 0; DIR* dir = fdopendir(fd); if (dir==NULL) return 0; IoDIRP(sv_2io(sv_hnd)) = dir; return 1; } END_OF_C use Symbol qw/geniosym/; use File::Spec; sub myfdopendir { return unless _xs_myfdopendir( $_[0]//File::Spec->curdir, my $dh=geniosym ); return $dh; } use Data::Dump; my @x = myreaddir('/tmp') or die $!; dd @x; my $dh = myfdopendir('/tmp') or die $!; dd readdir $dh; closedir $dh or die $!;