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Date: Thu,  3 Feb 2011 17:42:14 -0800
From: Robert Ransom <rransom.8774@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] files vs. directories
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:42:39 +0000
smiley@zenzebra.mv.com wrote:

> There's no way that I know of to possibly interperet a path ending in
> "/" as a file (with the exception of reading raw Dir data, as on Plan
> 9 or "cat /" on, what was it, Solaris?).

FreeBSD 8.0 lets you cat the raw data of a directory, and I would
expect the other free BSDs to have that misfeature, too.


Robert Ransom

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