Re: psql -f doesn't complain about directories - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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,

Have a nice day,
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