Re: psql -f doesn't complain about directories

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql -f doesn't complain about directories
Date: 2007-11-15 10:25:02
Message-ID: 473C1E7E.5030001@sun.com
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Martijn van Oosterhout napsal(a):
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:33:17PM +0100, Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>>> Sure, why not. To be honest I think that psql shouldn't be ignoring the
>>> EISDIR error the kernel is returning.
>> But it works when you open directory in read-only mode. See posix
>> definition:
>>
>> [EISDIR]
>> The named file is a directory and oflag includes O_WRONLY or O_RDWR.
>
> $ strace psql -f /tmp
> <snip>
> open("/tmp", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
> <snip>
> read(4, 0xb7f1b000, 4096) = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory)
>
> Which is subsequently ignored. I'm hoping it doesn't ignore other
> errors, like EIO or EPIPE,

Yes, you have right I checked only open command which works fine, but read fails.

Zdenek

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