Thread: Improvements on Recursive Directory Listing

Hi i am a relative newb to C programming, in a unix environment i am attempting to create a C program that does a recursive directory listing, functionaly similar to "ls -lR"

So far i have come up with this

Code:

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
  DIR * dir;
  struct dirent * entry;
  dir = opendir( argv[1] );
  while ( entry=readdir( dir ) ) {
    printf( "%s\n", entry->d_name );
  }
  closedir( dir );
  return 0;
}

Does any1 have any ideas how i could improve this with the use of chdir, stat and any other procedures which could improve its performance???

any help would be greatly recieved

many thanks

laney