Hello Stefan,

just dropping them works for me.

Antoine
On Mar 3, 2014, at 8:39 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been looking into Bugzilla 56149.  There is a named pipe scanned by
> DirectoryScanner and DS seems to treat it like a directory.
> 
> The reporter of the bug confirmed File.isFile and File.isDirectory both
> return false for the named pipe so this is something we can detect and
> something DirectoryScanner doesn't expext.  isFile is expected to be the
> opposite of isDirectory in a few places.
> 
> I think it would be easy to add guards to only treat files as files and
> dirs as dirs, the question is what to do with File objects that are
> neither.  Drop them?  Treat them as files?  Add another user-controlled
> option?
> 
> They seem to be rare creatures and in the context of issue 56149 "just
> drop them" would probably be the sanest choice.
> 
> Stefan
> 
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