Nathaniel Smith spake unto us the following wisdom: > To start with, there's absolutely no need to check that a path is a > file before opening it for reading -- if it's not a file, then the > read will fail just fine on its own. I threw that assertion in > because at the time I figured if we were already reading the whole > file than a stat was too cheap to worry about, but if this is wrong > then let's take that out and handle errors from read.
Is this true on all reasonable filesystems and operating environments?
I know that there are flavors of Unix out there (maybe *all* flavors
of Unix older than some age?) which will let you open() and read() a
directory.
Ethan
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