In message <Pine.NEB.4.21.0103111015120.428-100000@wojtek.from.pl>
	on Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:17:18 +0100 (CET),
	<wojtek@wojtek.from.pl> wrote:
> linux gives that it's directory not file and refused which i think it's
> normal..
Linux isn't traditional UNIX.

> but with netbsd i CAN read directory as file and got binary output from
> cat!
NetBSD's behavior is traditional UNIX's one.  But on none traditional
file system; NFS, you can't read directory.

> what is it used for and what about security issues? could directory be
> written directly too?!
There is no security issue.  Did you try to it by your self?

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Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>