small bug in BSD opendir(3)

chris mcdonald chris at wacsvax.OZ
Wed Dec 28 12:08:26 AEST 1988


In article <1137 at murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> kre at cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes:
>In article <933 at wacsvax.OZ>, chris at wacsvax.OZ (chris mcdonald) writes:
>> The manual entry says that opendir(3) will fail (and return NULL) if
>> the indicated filename is not a directory (and for other reasons).
>
>This is the way that it used to be, however ...
>

Then I stand corrected.
It must be the manual entry that is still "how it used to be" and
perhaps SunOS have chosen to implement their opendir(3) from either
old sources or currect manual entries?

I pity the poor souls without source access.

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Chris McDonald (chris at wacsvax.oz)



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