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SubjectRe: opendir() on a file???
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On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:26:57 -0500
Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Now I might be missing something, and I know I'm behind on LKML[0], but
> the following isn't supposed to work in my book:
>
> /*
> * Weird kernel test
> */
>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <dirent.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> DIR *dir;
>
> dir = opendir("foo.conf");
>
> if (dir)
> printf("WTF?\n");
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> This is on an ext4 filesystem, whereas on a box with an older kernel
> this test correctly does not print "WTF?". I know some filesystems
> experiment with streams and treating files as directories, etc. but I
> wasn't aware that anything particular had changed recently?
>
> The box is running almost an upstream kernel, and I can poke if I'm told
> this not intended: 2.6.34-0.8.rc0.git11.fc14.x86_64.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Jon.
>
> [0] The podcast isn't dead, I'm just suffering from a cold and will be
> taking a day off to recover and catch up with that sometime today.
>
>

perhaps you are missing this patch:
commit 781b16775ba0bb55fac0e1757bf0bd87c8879632
Author: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat Mar 6 18:41:07 2010 +0000

Fix a dumb typo - use of & instead of &&

We managed to lose O_DIRECTORY testing due to a stupid typo in commit
1f36f774b2 ("Switch !O_CREAT case to use of do_last()")

Reported-by: Walter Sheets <w41ter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


but this is only a guess...

cheers,
Flo




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