On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:06:45AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> I think code that opens a directory as a file is broken. We have
> opendir() for that and it returns a DIR pointer, not a file descriptor.
> If the directory was properly opened, one would never attempt to
> fsync() it.
It's the libc which defines it. Theere no syscall "opendir". How you think
you can return what sus defines as "DIR*" from the kernel?
offtopic: on aix you can do this: "cat ."
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