In article <43722C24.7020308@3am-software.com>,
	Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> writes:
> This implies that the linux_sys_read syscall (and friends) needs to know
> if it's reading from a directory, and if so, do the getdents dance itself.

Yes, indeed.

> This would be filesystem independent.  And ugly as hell.

Why? Figuring out that it is a directory can be done by looking on the vnode.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/