On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:17:50PM -0500, Adam wrote: > Why does fopen()ing a directory for reading succeed instead of failing > with EISDIR? This has the possibly unexpected consequence of letting > you pass yyin to yylex() as a fopen()ed directory, which then thinks it > finished successfully because fread() returns 0 immediately.
Directories are files and can be open(2)ed as such for reading. Trying the same for writing *should* give EISDIR. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
