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Xref: sserve comp.unix.wizards:30212 comp.unix.questions:37154 comp.unix.bsd:12335 Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!nabeth.cxo.dec.com!alan From: alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.) Subject: Re: BSD filesystem and od utility Message-ID: <1993Jul29.195743.1849@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> Lines: 32 Sender: usenet@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com (USENET News System) Reply-To: alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation References: <22n249$2fv@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 19:57:43 GMT In article <22n249$2fv@agate.berkeley.edu>, scott@soda.berkeley.edu (Scott Silvey) writes: > > [ Octal dump of a directory deleted. ] >My questions are as follows: > > [ Questions also deleted. ] > >Any information would be greatly appreciated. Wouldn't it be easier to look at the structure of a directory entry in the include file that defines, rather than trying to disassemble it. You can probably find it in /usr/include/sys/dir.h. or maybe dirent.h. If you can't find it, the directory entries consist of variable length records. In addition to the inode and name, it contains a length for the entry and the name. Entries are probably padded to some nicely aligned length for those systems that care. > > Thanx in advance, > > Jon. > >P.S. Please mail replies/clarifications to 'jon@lurnix.com' - I don't > get to read news very often and this will insure I get your reply. > -- Alan Rollow alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com