Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: open problem | From | (Aaron M. Ucko) | Date | 17 Jan 1998 11:55:36 -0500 |
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Jason Watts <khg@m-net.arbornet.org> writes:
> If a dir is nothing but a file with dir entries, with its own > inode etc., why wasn't an open system call implemented for directories?
It is. Most Linux file systems fail with EISDIR if you try to read(2) from a directory; you should use readdir(3) or getdents(2) instead, rather than concerning yourself with the physical layout for whatever file system type you're using.
-- Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
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