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Some filesystems allow reading from the directory node as though it is a file. In Plan9, for instance, that will return you a machine readable directory listing
by SixSigma 12y ago
Some filesystems allow reading from the directory node as though it is a file. In Plan9, for instance, that will return you a machine readable directory listing. You could do funky stuff with this feature, if you were crazy enough :)
- dalke 12y agoMinix did the same thing. For that matter, checking now on a FreeBSD box: %uname FreeBSD %cat . ?K?FRA?public_ftpGRA?%