'fopen' successfully opens directories

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> wrote:

> On 23-Apr-2008, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> 
> | Let's suppose the program works.
> | 
> | If so, what useful can be done with 'fid' ?
> | 
> | My point is that if I open a file, I can iterate over the FID using 'read' function
> | and thus extracting item by item (minimally byte by byte) from the file.
> | 
> | Likewise, if I open a directory using 'opendir', I can iterate over the directory handle
> | using 'readdir' and thus extracting item by item (file or directory names) from the directory.
> | 
> | I discovered this problem incidentally, not with /tmp, but rather forgetting to copy-paste
> | part of path, i.e. I had /foo/bar instead of full /foo/bar/doo/dah/file.
> | 
> | At least a friendly warning ...
> 
> If you (or anyone else) would like to see this behavior change, I
> suggest submitting a patch.
> 
> jwe
> 

Which file implements 'fopen' in 'octave' ? And which function(s) in it ?

Thanks,
  Sergei.


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