On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:05:42PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > the directory's contents happened to have a true value at the end? will > > require be sucessful? Shouldn't it test that the file it's going to read is > > actually a file? > > There was just a big umm, thread on this earlier, but I don't think it > was noticed that require() effected. Yeah, it probably should check that > its a file.
I'd rather that it checked it was not a directory (S_IFDIR, and not a block special device: S_IFBLK). People can do funky things with named pipes and sockets and char devices. We shouldn't be stopping them. Tim.
