Re: Don't concat directories to file names

[Andreas Schwab]

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

> Also, in MS-DOS, there was some trickery to simulate that directories
> were files, but you couldn't, for example, get the size of one, or
> directly write onto it as a file.

You can't write to a directory file on Unix either, and the size of it
is mostly meaningless too.

Andreas.

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