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Message: [QUOTE="Dan Pop, post: 1672313"] If well designed and generic enough, this is not going to happen. See below. You're missing the point. C should provide a minimal interface to accessing directories plus a minimal interface to the information associated with each directory entry (a minimal <dirent.h> and a minimal <stat.h>). Each implementation can either extend these minimal interfaces or provide alternative solutions that provide as much information as available on the underlying OS. The minimal and possibly suboptimal C solution doesn't prevent better solutions that are platform specific. E.g. the existence of <stdio.h> doesn't prevent any implementation from providing alternate I/O interfaces, more flexible and more functional than the standard C one. Dan [/QUOTE]