On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:33:17PM +0100, Zdenek Kotala wrote: > >Sure, why not. To be honest I think that psql shouldn't be ignoring the > >EISDIR error the kernel is returning. > > But it works when you open directory in read-only mode. See posix > definition: > > [EISDIR] > The named file is a directory and oflag includes O_WRONLY or O_RDWR.
$ strace psql -f /tmp
<snip>
open("/tmp", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
<snip>
read(4, 0xb7f1b000, 4096) = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory)
Which is subsequently ignored. I'm hoping it doesn't ignore other
errors, like EIO or EPIPE,
Have a nice day,
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