Re: [gawk-stable] bug: fatal error when getline from directory

[Andreas Schwab]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> But there is no ambiguity - it excludes directories, in part because
> directory entries contain NUL bytes (guaranteed by the wording in
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/dirent.h.html#tag_13_08,
> which states that d_name includes a terminating NUL), and in part, because
> the last directory entry does not necessarily end in a newline.

The contents described by struct dirent are cooked values, there is no
requirement that they match the raw contents of a directory file, which
you would get when you read(2) it (if that is possible at all).

Andreas.

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