On 10/09/2017 05:30 AM, Jonny Grant wrote:
Fair enough. I agree it has been around for longer, but meant that POSIX
standardized on that limitation, and didn't offer a better solution that
clarified, eg ENOENTF ENOENTD
I'm guessing not making the distinction saved a bit of CPU.
yes, a clearer errno value, for files, and separate for directories
would be ideal.
Would have been better.
Has anyone ever wanted to "cd" into a file?
$ cd file
-bash: cd: file: Not a directory
In this case it tested whether 'file' is a directory. When trying 'cd'
into 'missingdir', the result is that an entry 'missingdir' couldn't be
found, whether file or directory. This is actually more informative.
Peter