Traverse Directory Depth First

Question

I need to traverse a directory depth first without using boost but I have not been able to find a good tutorial how to do this. I know how to list the files of the directory, but not sure how to about this one. This list the files of a directory:

Answer 1

Use the ftw or nftw functions if your system has them. Or, grab the fts_* functions from, e.g., the OpenBSD source tree and study those, or use them directly. This problem is harder than you might think, because you can run out of file descriptors when recursing through deep filesystem hierarchies.