#include <ftw.h> int ftw(const char *dirpath, int (*fn) (const char *fpath, const struct stat *sb, int typeflag), int nopenfd); #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500 #include <ftw.h> int nftw(const char *dirpath, int (*fn) (const char *fpath, const struct stat *sb, int typeflag, struct FTW *ftwbuf), int nopenfd, int flags);
To avoid using up all of the calling process's file descriptors, nopenfd specifies the maximum number of directories that ftw() will hold open simultaneously. When the search depth exceeds this, ftw() will become slower because directories have to be closed and reopened. ftw() uses at most one file descriptor for each level in the directory tree.
For each entry found in the tree, ftw() calls fn() with three arguments: fpath, sb, and typeflag. fpath is the pathname of the entry relative to dirpath. sb is a pointer to the stat structure returned by a call to stat(2) for fpath. typeflag is an integer that has one of the following values:
If fpath is a symbolic link and stat(2) failed, POSIX.1-2001 states that it is undefined whether FTW_NS or FTW_SL (see below) is passed in typeflag.
To stop the tree walk, fn() returns a non-zero value; this value will become the return value of ftw(). As long as fn() returns 0, ftw() will continue either until it has traversed the entire tree, in which case it will return zero, or until it encounters an error (such as a malloc(3) failure), in which case it will return -1.
Because ftw() uses dynamic data structures, the only safe way to exit out of a tree walk is to return a non-zero value from fn(). To allow a signal to terminate the walk without causing a memory leak, have the handler set a global flag that is checked by fn(). Don't use longjmp(3) unless the program is going to terminate.
This flags argument is formed by ORing zero or more of the following flags:
Other return values could be associated with new actions in the future; fn() should not return values other than those listed above.
The feature test macro _GNU_SOURCE must be defined in order to obtain the definition of FTW_ACTIONRETVAL from <ftw.h>.
If FTW_PHYS is not set, but FTW_DEPTH is set, then the function fn() is never called for a directory that would be a descendant of itself.
For each entry in the directory tree, nftw() calls fn() with four arguments. fpath and sb are as for ftw(). typeflag may receive any of the same values as with ftw(), or any of the following values:
The fourth argument that nftw() supplies when calling fn() is a structure of type FTW:
struct FTW { int base; int level; };base is the offset of the filename (i.e., basename component) in the pathname given in fpath. level is the depth of fpath in the directory tree, relative to the root of the tree (dirpath, which has depth 0).
If fn() returns non-zero, then the tree walk is terminated and the value returned by fn() is returned as the result of ftw() or nftw().
If nftw() is called with the FTW_ACTIONRETVAL flag, then the only non-zero value that should be used by fn() to terminate the tree walk is FTW_STOP, and that value is returned as the result of nftw().
On some systems ftw() will never use FTW_SL, on other systems FTW_SL occurs only for symbolic links that do not point to an existing file, and again on other systems ftw() will use FTW_SL for each symbolic link. For predictable control, use nftw().
Under Linux, libc4 and libc5 and glibc 2.0.6 will use FTW_F for all objects (files, symbolic links, FIFOs, etc.) that can be stat'ed but are not a directory.
The function nftw() is available since glibc 2.1.
FTW_ACTIONRETVAL is glibc-specific.
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500 #include <ftw.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdint.h> static int display_info(const char *fpath, const struct stat *sb, int tflag, struct FTW *ftwbuf) { printf("%-3s %2d %7jd %-40s %d %s\n", (tflag == FTW_D) ? "d" : (tflag == FTW_DNR) ? "dnr" : (tflag == FTW_DP) ? "dp" : (tflag == FTW_F) ? "f" : (tflag == FTW_NS) ? "ns" : (tflag == FTW_SL) ? "sl" : (tflag == FTW_SLN) ? "sln" : "???", ftwbuf->level, (intmax_t) sb->st_size, fpath, ftwbuf->base, fpath + ftwbuf->base); return 0; /* To tell nftw() to continue */ } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int flags = 0; if (argc > 2 && strchr(argv[2], aqdaq) != NULL) flags |= FTW_DEPTH; if (argc > 2 && strchr(argv[2], aqpaq) != NULL) flags |= FTW_PHYS; if (nftw((argc < 2) ? "." : argv[1], display_info, 20, flags) == -1) { perror("nftw"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }