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- Submitted-by: mib@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
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- In article <20859nINN6dj@rodan.UU.NET> mike@pdx095.intel.com (Mike Haertel) writes:
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- Note that the messages usually suppressed by grep -s are the result
- of open() attempts, but the EISDIR that Larry is talking about is
- what you get when you try to read() and NFS-mounted directory--the
- open() succeeds.
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- The real lose here (surprise, surprise) is that NFS is the culprit
- here. The correct place for the EISDIR to be returned is to the open
- call, not to the read. Errors should not be returned from read and
- write if they can be detected at open time and are thoroughly
- non-transient.
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