-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to John E. Malmberg on 2/18/2008 8:46 PM: | I have run into a problem: GNU TAR now requires that the open() call | support O_DIRECTORY.
Tar is using O_DIRECTORY to close a security hole, and not to directly read the directory contents. And POSIX requires that a directory be openable read-only, even though reads on such a fd are allowed to fail. Gnulib's replacemente <fcntl.h> should detect platforms that lack O_DIRECTORY, and define it to 0 on those platforms. The trick now is figuring out why gnulib's <fcntl.h> didn't work for VMS; it may also be necessary to provide a replacement open() that can 'support' opening directories by using opendir under the hood. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHult184KuGfSFAYARApsiAJ0ZHTwvVEgdiwt060B97oYAZ2UcjwCfVRUY WmRg7GXvt6eti10elGmBiN0= =+Rj8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
