Re: Use consistent errno for read(2) failure on directories

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Subject: Re: Use consistent errno for read(2) failure on directories
From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 04:36:55 -0500

On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:33:54 +0100
Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost> 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.

In the case of sys/rump/librump/rumpvfs/rumpfs.c, is it possible that
the underlaying implementation could previously decide if it could
support read(2) on directories, and this would no longer be the case
with this patch?

Thanks,
-- 
Matt

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