From: flint pyrite <flintnpyrite@gmail.com>
To: libc-help@sourceware.org
Subject: readdir and ENOENT error or EOF?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:38:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPdH1feeZWYTOEgz=Q14PnfccHqz=gE6qwr9-L0bfK7rh2xDQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
There appears to be ambiguity in user documentation for readdir when
it returns NULL and errno is set to ENOENT.
Is this an EOF condition or an actual error that should be handled?
...
/* On some systems getdents fails with ENOENT when the
open directory has been rmdir'd already. POSIX.1
requires that we treat this condition like normal EOF. */
if (bytes < 0 && errno == ENOENT)
bytes = 0;
...
https://code.woboq.org/userspace/glibc/sysdeps/posix/readdir.c.htmlin
Thanks in advance for your time and help on this matter.
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