I was wondering how to do this. I have tried several things but nothing seems to work for me. I don't want to use opendir() syscall nor do i want to use readdir() system call. Could you please tell me how to do this because i get garbage values. I want to list files that are inside a folder. I get garbage value stored in the buffer from this code.
char buffer[16];
size_t offset = 0;
size_t bytes_read;
int i;
/* Open the file for reading. */
int fd = open ("testfolder", O_RDONLY);
/* Read from the file, one chunk at a time. Continue until read
“comes up short”, that is, reads less than we asked for.
This indicates that we’ve hit the end of the file. */
do {
/* Read the next line’s worth of bytes. */
bytes_read = read (fd, buffer, 16);
/* Print the offset in the file, followed by the bytes themselves.*/
// printf ("0x%06lx : ", offset);
// for (i = 0; i < bytes_read; ++i)
// printf ("%02x ", buffer[i]);
printf("%s", buffer);
printf ("\n");
/* Keep count of our position in the file. */
// offset += bytes_read;
}
while (bytes_read!=-1);
