On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Ronald Khoo wrote:

: Argh -- this won't work.  This app was compiled on an older xenix
: box that didn't use the getdents() system call to read directories
: (or perhaps the developer accidentally said -lndir to deliberately
: load the old opendir/readdir calls in order to be compatible
: with pre-2.3 xenix kernels which did not support getdents -- something
: which I used to do too)

: Perhaps the "right" thing to do would be for the emulation code
: to trap open/read access to directories and DTRT with them?

This is the right thing.  Emulation should be as complete as possible, and
the more things we find as they crop up, the better they are fixed.

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