ansi c and directories

[Peter da Silva]

> |>>So, what should the first argument to fopen() be on an Unisys 1100?
> |> A filename, whose mapping to file access is defined by the implementation.
> |Good. We've established that. Now why can't the same semantics be defined
> |for directory reading utilities?

> 	I'm sure the concept of a file is more inherit to operating
> systems than is the concept of a directory.

In any system for which files have names, there is at least one directory.

Thus a routine that returns the names of files in at least the current
directory is more generally portable than system().

And, as you pointed out, system() is in the standard.
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