Jari Aalto dixit:
>Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> writes:
>> Yes, but SUSv4 doesn’t say (or I could not find it) explicitly what
>> to do with directories.
>
>It doesn't say about many things: context of symlinks, block devices etc.
Indeed. That would probably be implementation-specific behaviour.
[…]
>Does it not explicitly read <file> in all points?
>The POSIX standard is perfectly clear on this: it says <file> and that
>word does not have intereptation you suggest.
Directories are files. You did not prove otherwise.
SUSv4 does not (or I cannot find it) say that directories
are *not* files.
bye,
//mirabilos
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