9.843 readdir_r

POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/readdir_r.html

Gnulib module: extensions

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is planned to be removed from POSIX and to be deprecated in glibc. Portable applications should use readdir.
• This function has an incompatible declaration on some platforms: Solaris 11 2011-11 (when _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS is not defined).

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is missing on some platforms: Minix 3.1.8, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
• On platforms where off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not work correctly on huge directories larger than 2 GB. Also, on platforms where ino_t is a 32-bit type, this function may report inode numbers incorrectly. The fix is to use the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.