>The pike wrapper for the last (Stdio.File.open) does actually work for >dirs too, but it's of very limited use (you can't read or write to an >Stdio.File which has an opened directory). I dare say that's a bug too >since it's neither useful nor expected.
It is useful, since you can use it as a starting point for directory
operations:
> object f = Stdio.File("/etc");
> f->openat("motd", "r")->read();
(1) Result: "Sun Microsystems Inc.\tSunOS 5.10\tGeneric\tJanuary 2005\n"
