On 3 February 2011 13:44, dexen deVries <dexen.devr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, February 03, 2011 02:36:40 pm roger peppe wrote:
>> On 3 February 2011 11:45, dexen deVries <dexen.devr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > read(open("/foo")) returns byte stream under entry `foo' in the root
>> > object.
>> >
>> > readdir("/foo") returns `bar' (and possibly others) -- entries in
>> > hierarchical section of object `/foo'.
>>
>> there's no distinction between readdir and read in plan 9.
>
> Forgot about that. Still, you can't chdir() into an inode that doesn't
> indicate being a directory. And the bytestream returned by
> read(SOME_DIRECTORY) is fixed-format and doesn't provide any space for free-
> form bytestream.i don't think that helps you. under plan 9, reading a directory is this: translate(read(open(dir))) i don't see how you can make read(open(dir)) return something different. oh yes, maintaining the usual semantics for cp becomes tricky. mkdir z cp x.c z do i mean to write x.c to z itself, or to a new file within z?
