Messages in this thread | | | Subject | opendir() on a file??? | From | Jon Masters <> | Date | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:26:57 -0500 |
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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.
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