Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:36:06 -0800 (PST) | | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | | Subject | Re: Linux's interpretation of trailing '/' |
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On 15-Dec-98 Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > I don't find the error message logical, since you can't cat a > directory. > > cat: z/: Not a directory > cat: /: Is a directory
Right, because the first error comes from open("z/") failing, whereas the second one comes from trying to use read(fd, , ) on a directory file descriptor.
J
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