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To: Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Mark Olesen <markjolesen@gmail.com>,  Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: readdir and ENOENT error or EOF?
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On Jun 22 2021, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:

> * Mark Olesen:
>
>> Should ENOENT be handled as an error or is it indeed an EOF condition?
>
> I don't know.  It's really hard to make such changes because there are
> so many Linux file system implementations.  So we kind of default to
> make not making changes. 8-/

POSIX makes it clear that when an EOF condition occurs, errno must be
left unchanged.  AFAICS, our readdir implementation conforms to that.

Andreas.

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