Follow-up Comment #1, task #5724 (project hurd): struct dirent has unsigned char d_type, whose value may be DT_DIR or something else. But several file-system implementations on the Hurd always store DT_UNKNOWN there, regardless of what is on disk, so there should be no problem if a translator changes a file to a directory or vice versa.
* ext2fs: DT_UNKNOWN since 1999-10-03. * fatfs: DT_UNKNOWN from the beginning. * ftpfs: Actual type, but netfs_set_translator returns EROFS. * isofs: DT_UNKNOWN from the beginning. * nfs: DT_UNKNOWN since 1996-03-19. * procfs: DT_UNKNOWN from the beginning. * tmpfs: DT_DIR for "." and "..", DT_UNKNOWN otherwise. On 2003-01-21, a coreutils bug was fixed where rm would assume the entry is not a directory if d_type == DT_UNKNOWN. It seems the implementation was already correct when this task was filed on 2006-07-17. The IRC logs at http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/ start from 2006-08-20 so I don't know what kind of problem was seen then. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5724> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
