[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:24:18 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
wrote:

> > Hmmm....my FreeBSD systems allow one to 'cat' a directory, as I would 
> > expect.
> 
> What version?  Mine did in the past but I just tried it and it failed
> on a directory.  I run mostly FreeBSD here.  No Solaris currently in
> operation.  Not even at home.

6.3 on this one. Also tried 6.4. Don't have a 7.x system handy.

SunOS is at work (university). That's 5.9 apparently. Don't use it much.

> > I just tried on a SunOS system at work, and 'cat' fails on a directory. 
> > I don't have the source for that, but I wrote a test program and 
> > successfully opened a directory with that.
> > 
> > So it does seem to be, at least on SunOS, something in the application 
> > rather than the API.
> 
> As I expected, protect the user from himself.

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Bob Eager