On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 08:50:04AM -0400, Emily Maier wrote: > The VFS permits filesystems to implement read(2) on directories, but > FUSE unconditionally returns -EISDIR for it. Expose this to userspace as > FUSE_DIR_READ and continue returning the old behavior if the filesystem > doesn't implement it. What the hell for? read() on directories had been an anachronism since early 80s, has nothing resembling a sane semantics, etc. Why would we want to implement that idiocy? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
