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.set_source("_readdir", None) if __name__ == '__main__': ffi.compile()