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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:33:51 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: findutils vs. /proc/registry
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On Aug  8 15:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug  8 06:35, Eric Blake wrote:
> > I traced this to the fact that findutils() expects open(".", O_RDONLY) to
> > succeed if a directory is readable (and that is my reading of POSIX as
> > well), but cygwin is failing with EISDIR.  Is there any way cygwin can be
> > patched to allow open(".", O_RDONLY) to succeed?
> 
> Just so that nobody gets a wrong impression, open(".", O_RDONLY) only
> fails in some deeper virtual dirs, mainly in /proc/registry, but also
> in /proc/<pid>/fd.  I'll look into this one.

I've checked in a patch.


Corinna

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