Date:        Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:34:04 -0400
    From:        Ken Hornstein <[email protected]>
    Message-ID:  <[email protected]>

  | mhshow: error reading from /tmp: Is a directory
  |         (content text/plain in message /tmp)

Some systems don't allow reads of directories, traditional unix, and
many other systems just treat a directory as a (read-only) file, and you
can read it like any other file (and on those, readdir() is sometimes just
a wrapper that calls read(), and knows a little bit about how much to
hand back each call.)

kre


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