Usenet 1994 October/usenetsourcesnewsgroupsinfomagicoctober1994disk2.iso/std_unix/volume.31/text0082.txt

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Submitted-by: [e-mail] (Michael I Bushnell)

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
>No. NFS is not the culprit. You cannot detect this at open time.
>When you read a directory, you'll open it with open and read it
>with getdents(). When you open a file for reading, you'll use the
>exact same open call. You cannot detect this error at open time.

Hmm.  I suppose that makes sense.  I think the optimal solution is
simply to provide getdents, with a standard format, and say that read
on a directory gets you some filesystem-dependent raw format.  There
is no reason to have read return an error for directories at all.


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Volume-Number: Volume 31, Number 84