* opendir() on a file???
@ 2010-03-09 9:26 Jon Masters
2010-03-09 14:59 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-09 15:05 ` Florian Mickler
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jon Masters @ 2010-03-09 9:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Folks,
Now I might be missing something, and I know I'm behind on LKML[0], but
the following isn't supposed to work in my book:
/*
* Weird kernel test
*/
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
DIR *dir;
dir = opendir("foo.conf");
if (dir)
printf("WTF?\n");
return 0;
}
This is on an ext4 filesystem, whereas on a box with an older kernel
this test correctly does not print "WTF?". I know some filesystems
experiment with streams and treating files as directories, etc. but I
wasn't aware that anything particular had changed recently?
The box is running almost an upstream kernel, and I can poke if I'm told
this not intended: 2.6.34-0.8.rc0.git11.fc14.x86_64.
What am I missing?
Jon.
[0] The podcast isn't dead, I'm just suffering from a cold and will be
taking a day off to recover and catch up with that sometime today.
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* Re: opendir() on a file???
2010-03-09 9:26 opendir() on a file??? Jon Masters
@ 2010-03-09 14:59 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-09 16:05 ` Jon Masters
2010-03-09 15:05 ` Florian Mickler
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ulrich Drepper @ 2010-03-09 14:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jon Masters; +Cc: LKML
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 01:26, Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> wrote:
> Now I might be missing something, and I know I'm behind on LKML[0], but
> the following isn't supposed to work in my book:
Al introduced and fixed the problem, from what I've seen.
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* Re: opendir() on a file???
2010-03-09 9:26 opendir() on a file??? Jon Masters
2010-03-09 14:59 ` Ulrich Drepper
@ 2010-03-09 15:05 ` Florian Mickler
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Florian Mickler @ 2010-03-09 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:26:57 -0500
Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Now I might be missing something, and I know I'm behind on LKML[0], but
> the following isn't supposed to work in my book:
>
> /*
> * Weird kernel test
> */
>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <dirent.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> DIR *dir;
>
> dir = opendir("foo.conf");
>
> if (dir)
> printf("WTF?\n");
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> This is on an ext4 filesystem, whereas on a box with an older kernel
> this test correctly does not print "WTF?". I know some filesystems
> experiment with streams and treating files as directories, etc. but I
> wasn't aware that anything particular had changed recently?
>
> The box is running almost an upstream kernel, and I can poke if I'm told
> this not intended: 2.6.34-0.8.rc0.git11.fc14.x86_64.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Jon.
>
> [0] The podcast isn't dead, I'm just suffering from a cold and will be
> taking a day off to recover and catch up with that sometime today.
>
>
perhaps you are missing this patch:
commit 781b16775ba0bb55fac0e1757bf0bd87c8879632
Author: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat Mar 6 18:41:07 2010 +0000
Fix a dumb typo - use of & instead of &&
We managed to lose O_DIRECTORY testing due to a stupid typo in commit
1f36f774b2 ("Switch !O_CREAT case to use of do_last()")
Reported-by: Walter Sheets <w41ter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
but this is only a guess...
cheers,
Flo
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* Re: opendir() on a file???
2010-03-09 14:59 ` Ulrich Drepper
@ 2010-03-09 16:05 ` Jon Masters
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jon Masters @ 2010-03-09 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ulrich Drepper; +Cc: LKML
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 06:59 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 01:26, Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> wrote:
> > Now I might be missing something, and I know I'm behind on LKML[0], but
> > the following isn't supposed to work in my book:
>
> Al introduced and fixed the problem, from what I've seen.
Thanks. It's fixed in today's rawhide.
Jon.
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