Re: [Libvir] Don't fail to read a file because it's non-seekable (e.g., a pipe).

8 Apr 2008


      "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 05:12:28PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
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And if someone does e.g. virsh define DIR_NAME
on a system that lets you read directories, they
won't be too surprised that the contents of the
directory is invalid XML.
Here's the updated patch:
Patch looks good.
What are these systems that let you read directories?
Plenty.  It used to work on Linux, but no longer does.
I've just confirmed that "cat /" succeeds (but prints nothing useful)
on Solaris 10, freebsd 6.1, openbsd 3.9, and netbsd 1.6.