On 08/23/2014 03:00 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On FreeBSD at least you can also _read_... > > $ mkdir test > $ cd test > $ touch a b > > $ dd if=. status=none | od -Ax -tx1z > 000000 0c dd 31 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 12 d9 17 00 >..1.............< > 000010 0c 00 04 02 2e 2e 00 00 0d dd 31 00 0c 00 08 01 >..........1.....< > 000020 61 00 14 c1 0e dd 31 00 dc 01 08 01 62 00 14 c1 >a.....1.....b...< > 000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >................< > * > 000200 > > Honestly I don't see the usefulness of a low level read() like this, > and I suppose it's file system dependent too, not working on NFS for example.
I see, thanks for confirming. Have a nice day, Berny
