Directories can only be written with the appropriate syscalls.

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On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:

>
> could someone explain me the difference between netbsd and linux when
> trying to read directory as file (for example when typing cat <directory>
> by accident).
> linux gives that it's directory not file and refused which i think it's
> normal..
>
> but with netbsd i CAN read directory as file and got binary output from
> cat!
>
> what is it used for and what about security issues? could directory be
> written directly too?!
>
>