Making read(2) return EISDIR for directories breaks two ports, both
because they use libtool -bindir.  cc(1) gets executed with an unknown
option, -bindir, and a path such as /usr/local/bin, which then gets
passed to ld(1).  ld(1) copes with read(2) returning 0, not with EISDIR.
Thanks to Antoine who ran the bulk builds that exposed this problem.

-bindir support is meaningless on OpenBSD so handling that option should
be easy.  The problem is that I don't know how to implement it in
libtool(1).  GNU libtool recognizes -bindir among cc flags, while our
version seems to only handle options passed right after argv[0].

I plan to work around that problem by using GNU libtool for the ports
mentioned above, but someone else might want to poke at libtool(1)
internals. :)

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