On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 03:25:03PM +0530, Karthik Subramanian wrote: > I was dusting my old copy of Kernighan & Pike, and I remembered > working out most of the examples on an antiquated unix machine in > engineering school. I decided to try out some just for kicks, and I > discovered something: > > In page 51 of K&P, there's an example that runs od on a directory, and > the dump actually shows the filenames. I tried doing that (running 'od > .' ) on my linux box, and got this instead: > > od: .: Is a directory > 0000000 > > So why doesn't od work on directories? Could somebody shed some light > on this, please! od doesn't open(2) the file with the O_DIRECTORY flag, see "man 2 open" for an explanation. Erik -- Erik Mouw J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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