closedir

The C routines opendir(), readdir() and closedir() provide a way for me to traverse a directory structure. However, each dirent structure returned by readdir() does not seem to provide a useful way for me to obtain the set of pointers to DIR that I would need to recurse into the directory subdirectories. Of course, they give me the name of the files, so I could either append that name to the directory path and stat() and opendir() them, or I could change the current working directory of the process via chdir() and roll it back via chdir(".."). The problem with the first approach is that if the