>>>>> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:23:40 +0000 (UTC),
      christos@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) said:

> I don't think that linux uses read to read directories. I think it always
> uses getdents. Something else must be going on. Can someone verify by using
> ktrace?

Linux libc doesn't use read(2) to read directories, it uses
getdents64().
open(2) against directories always fails on Linux, even if the
filesystem is local.
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