On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 09:33:54AM +0100, Nicolas Joly wrote: > According to the online OpenGroup specification for read(2) available > at [1], read(2) on directories is implementation dependant. If > unsupported, it shall fail with EISDIR. > > Not all our file systems comply, and return random errno values in > this case (mostly EINVAL or ENOTSUP). > > The attached patch fix some of them (the ones i have access to), > adjust the man page accordingly and add a small testcase to exercize > this. > > Is it ok to apply ?
Yes, although I'm wondering if maybe it wouldn't be better to insert a filesystem-independent check and give up on the old ffs behavior. After all, application writers have had what, 25 years now? to learn not to do this. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
