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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:04:48 -0400
From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory
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On 8/31/07, Douglas A. Gwyn <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote:
> My proposed implementation, for any Unix-like system including
> Plan9, is to change read() on a directory to instead read from the
> directoryname/.data file, if it exists, or report an error if it
> doesn't exist.  This change should cause no disruption to existing
> file structures or applications, since as it stands there is no
> purpose in read()ing the contents of a directory (these days we use
> walk(), getdents(), etc. instead).

See /sys/src/libc/9sys/dirread.c and read(5).  Plan 9 doesn't have a
distinct system call for reading directory entries.

--Joel