Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's because we can't provide the correct information for the /dev/fd > translator. Instant faking wrong information, we just return a gratuitous > error message. I think this ratuitous error is not correct, and the > behaviour of the fd translator should be changed to provide as much useful > information as possible, fake some information that doesn't harm and return > a useful error message in all other cases. But I am afraid that for this > special situation no error number in glibc is appropriate (do we need a new > error number for this?)
Well, the reason for this error message is that the underlying translator (for /dev/fd) is behaving in a way which violates the protocol requirements. So the error EGRATUITOUS is in fact correct. What we need to do is fix /dev/fd, probably to present an empty directory list. It's hard to fetch a "list of current file descriptors", but maybe we could try that. Thomas
