Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!uniwa!wacsvax!chris
From: chris@wacsvax.OZ (chris mcdonald)
Newsgroups: aus.sources,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: small bug in BSD opendir(3)
Message-ID: <935@wacsvax.OZ>
Date: 28 Dec 88 02:08:26 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, Uni. Western Australia.
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In article <1137@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes:
>In article <933@wacsvax.OZ>, chris@wacsvax.OZ (chris mcdonald) writes:
>> The manual entry says that opendir(3) will fail (and return NULL) if
>> the indicated filename is not a directory (and for other reasons).
>
>This is the way that it used to be, however ...
>

Then I stand corrected.
It must be the manual entry that is still "how it used to be" and
perhaps SunOS have chosen to implement their opendir(3) from either
old sources or currect manual entries?

I pity the poor souls without source access.

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Chris McDonald (chris@wacsvax.oz)