"H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> writes:

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> HP-UX allows directories to be opened with fopen (path, "r"), which
> will cause some translations that expect to read files, read dirs
> instead. This patch makes sure the two fopen () calls in remote.c
> only open the file if it is a file.

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> +static FILE *open_file(char *full_path)
> +{
> +       struct stat st_buf;
> +       if (stat(full_path, &st_buf) || !S_ISREG(st_buf.st_mode))
> +               return NULL;
> +       return (fopen(full_path, "r"));
> +}

Can we make this a platform specific "compat" hack?

It is not fair to force stat() overhead to ports on platforms
that fails fopen() on directories, as I doubt we would ever want
from directory using fopen() anyway.
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