Opens the directory with the specified pathname.
Syntax
#include <prio.h> PRDir* PR_OpenDir(const char *name);
Parameter
The function has the following parameter:
name
- The pathname of the directory to be opened.
Returns
- If the directory is successfully opened, a
PRDir
object is dynamically allocated and the function returns a pointer to it. - If the directory cannot be opened, the function returns
NULL
.
Description
PR_OpenDir
opens the directory specified by the pathname name
and returns a pointer to a directory stream (a PRDir
object) that can be passed to subsequent PR_ReadDir
calls to get the directory entries (files and subdirectories) in the directory. The PRDir
pointer should eventually be closed by a call to PR_CloseDir
.