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readdir_r
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/readdir_r.html
Gnulib module: extensions
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS
is not defined).
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
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.