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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:55:36 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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CC: Andrew Cottrell <AndrewCottrell AT swiftdsl DOT com DOT au>
Subject: Re: inode problem in `rm'
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
[snip]
> Sorry, I don't see how fstat could be relevant here: we are talking
> about directories, and fstat cannot be possibly called on directories,
> since we cannot `open' a directory to get a file descriptor.

Actually, that's not true. From the "What's Changed" document:

"The function `fchdir' was added.  This required modifications to the
POSIX functions `open', `read', `write', `lseek', `ftruncate', `fstat',
`select', `fsync' and `fdopen' and the ANSI functions `fopen',
`freopen', `fclose', `ftell', `fseek' and `rewind', to make them aware
of file descriptors for directories."

I wonder if the 'rm' code actually calls fstat on an a directory file
descriptor, though. It doesn't sound like it.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]