# A Linux-only demo # import sys from cffi import FFI if not sys.platform.startswith('linux'): raise Exception("Linux-only demo") ffi = FFI() ffi.cdef(""" typedef void DIR; typedef long ino_t; typedef long off_t; struct dirent { ino_t d_ino; /* inode number */ off_t d_off; /* offset to the next dirent */ unsigned short d_reclen; /* length of this record */ unsigned char d_type; /* type of file; not supported by all file system types */ char d_name[256]; /* filename */ }; int readdir_r(DIR *dirp, struct dirent *entry, struct dirent **result); int openat(int dirfd, const char *pathname, int flags); DIR *fdopendir(int fd); int closedir(DIR *dirp); """) ffi.C = ffi.dlopen(None) def walk(basefd, path): print '{', path dirfd = ffi.C.openat(basefd, path, 0) if dirfd < 0: # error in openat() return dir = ffi.C.fdopendir(dirfd) dirent = ffi.new("struct dirent *") result = ffi.new("struct dirent **") while True: if ffi.C.readdir_r(dir, dirent, result): # error in readdir_r() break if result[0] == ffi.NULL: break name = ffi.string(dirent.d_name) print '%3d %s' % (dirent.d_type, name) if dirent.d_type == 4 and name != '.' and name != '..': walk(dirfd, name) ffi.C.closedir(dir) print '}' walk(-1, "/tmp")