On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 04:40 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
=
> > Now I might be missing something, and I know I'm behind on LKML[0], but
> > the following isn't supposed to work in my book:
> >
> > /*
> > * Weird kernel test
> > */
> >
> > #include <sys/types.h>
> > #include <dirent.h>
> > #include <stdio.h>
> >
> > int main(int argc, char **argv)
> > {
> > DIR *dir;
> >
> > dir = opendir("foo.conf");
> >
> > if (dir)
> > printf("WTF?\n");
> >
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > This is on an ext4 filesystem, whereas on a box with an older kernel
> > this test correctly does not print "WTF?". I know some filesystems
> > experiment with streams and treating files as directories, etc. but I
> > wasn't aware that anything particular had changed recently?
I was pointed to the offending commit upstream from Al, and it is fixed
in the rawhide that auto-installed a couple hours later. Sleeping would
really have just fixed everything.
Jon.
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