>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at lshift.net> writes:

Tony> This reinforces my prejudice that interrogating directories is something
Tony> that ought to be done via some other protocol than the byte- or
Tony> string-oriented stream protocols.

Yes, as an abstraction, I think opening a readstream on a directory might be
worthy of refusing.  Even if it would work on Unix-like things (for some
meaning of "work"), it's probably gonna be really nasty in other environments,
and clearly not portable.

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