Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Reading directories (was: Re: directory copying with cp; broken?)
Message-ID: <1988Oct14.164807.1320@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <30506@bbn.COM> <884@yabbie.rmit.oz>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 88 16:48:07 GMT

In article <884@yabbie.rmit.oz> rcodi@yabbie.rmit.oz (Ian Donaldson) writes:
>So what's the problem with disallowing opening directory special files 
>generally?

How can the directory access routines work then?

(Actually, the long-term answer is that directory reading really ought to
go via the kernel so that a standard interface to different kinds of file
systems can be provided, but just walling off the contents of directories
is not the answer just yet.)
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