https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893036
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893036#c8
Philipp Thomas changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED
CC| |pth@suse.com
Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #8 from Philipp Thomas 2014-09-03 13:33:58 CEST ---
The fix was rejected upstream:
It's better to avoid mentioning particular implementations in docs
as that can be incomplete and those implementations can change.
Stating that it "does not work" is vague also.
Consider this to directly check a directory is accessible:
linux$ dd status=none iflag=directory count=0 if=. || return
linux$ dd status=none iflag=directory count=0 if=/etc/passwd || return
dd: failed to open ‘/etc/passwd’: Not a directory
linux$ dd status=none iflag=directory count=0 if=/root || return
dd: opening `/root': Permission denied
We discussed recently the utility of low level directory I/O and decided
that it's an artefact to when directory representation was more coupled
with user space processing. I.E. low level directory I/O is of more limited
use than this flag itself per se.
Therefore I think the man page is fine as is.
So the man page will not mention it. If you don't like it, please complain
upstream on the coreutils@gnu.org ml.
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