Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:02:55 -0500 (EST) From: Alain Magloire <alainm@rcsm.ece.mcgill.ca> To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad 'grep' behaviour in -CURRENT, faulty binary detection? Message-ID: <199911120402.XAA07619@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA> In-Reply-To: <99Nov12.131311est.40336@border.alcanet.com.au> from "Peter Jeremy" at Nov 12, 99 01:19:11 pm
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Bonjour M. Peter Jeremy > On 1999-Nov-12 13:13:54 +1100, Alain Magloire wrote: > >(On Solaris, you can read() a directory). > > On any real Unix you can read() a directory - `everything is a file'. > Yes, and real programmers do not eat quiche either. For the Solaris comment, maybe I'm mistaken, maybe it was Linux that could not open/read directories, I do not remember. open()/read()'ing directories was never portable, even in the ranks of "real" Unix. Or perhaps depending on the filesystems it is not permitted it. You don't like opendir() and its friends *dir() ? -- au revoir, alain ---- Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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