Re: [Mingw-users] Where is __dirstream_t really defined?

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 19:08:39 +0100
> From: Miro Kropáček <mir...@gm...>
> 
>     Can you tell why you need to access the members of DIR?
>     
> 
> Well, it's not my project, it's someone else's. It's used like this:
> 
> #define DIRHANDLE dirp->dd_handle
> 
> DIR *dirp;
> 
> if ((dirp = opendir(dirname)) == NULL)
> return(-1);
> 
> if (fstat(DIRHANDLE, &stb) < 0)
> return(-1);
> 
> Not saying it's a great practice, though. So I'd like to make it compilable
> somehow, it works for other Unix flavors, incl. Cygwin.

That's unportable code.  Just stat the directory instead.