Re: PROBLEM: hfsplus filesystem allows opendir() on plain files

[Damian Stewart <damian@frey.co.nz>]

Brad Boyer wrote:
> Maybe the check in the generic code to decide what is a "directory"
> should be changed? We could possibly check inode->i_fop->readdir.

Hi Brad,

Thanks for your reply.

This issue came up because at least one major project (the VLC video 
player) is using 'opendir()' to determine whether or not a path is a file 
or directory. (They probably ought to be using 'stat()', but they're not, 
so this issue shows up.)

I've reported it on the VLC forums but only got very dismissive replies. 
The few developers who posted bluntly said it was a 'kernel bug' so they 
weren't willing to do anything about it; which is a shame, because it 
leaves those VLC users with videos on HFS+ drives unable to play their 
videos with the latest version of VLC.

Anyways, perhaps your suggestion is the right one, in this case.

Cheers
d
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