Ian Martin writes: > A message containing only ASCII characters which was nevertheless encoded as quoted-unreadable, with its original newlines senselessly escaped, and then more newlines injected, forming a bricktext with continuation markers. Does yahoo send them out like this or is it a mailing list manager hatchet job?
Reformatted for sanity: >Hi, >just trawling the webpages, I got caught in a loop. The syscalls page states: Don't read man pages you find on the web, unless you're deliberately looking for information on old systems. Up to date man pages for Linux are at ftp.$COUNTRYCODE.kernel.org:/pub/linux/docs/man-pages >... >Then there is __NR_readdir corresponding to old_readdir(), which will read at >most one directory entry at a time, and is superseded by sys_getdents(). > >however, on the getdents man page: > >DescriptionThis is not the function you are interested in. Look at >readdir(3)for >the POSIX conforming C library interface. This page documents the bare kernel >system call interface. You started at readdir(2), you ended at readdir(3). That's not a loop. readdir(3) is the POSIXly portable C-level interface. readdir(2) and getdents(2) are the Linux-specific implementations which you don't need to know about unless you're writing code at or below the libc layer. -- Alan Curry
