Today, Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk) wrote:
# The current kernel already implements that.
#
# If an fs object provides ->lookup(), you can opendir() it. But you
# can't chdir() or even fchdir() into it unless it has type S_IFDIR. This
# goes back to at least 2.2.
All rather academic, though - directories can have named streams as well
as files (on NTFS, at least).
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