autofs-5.0.7 - don't use dirent d_type to filter out files in scandir() From: Leonardo Chiquitto The "d_type" field of a dirent structure is not filled in by all file systems (XFS being one example), so we can't rely on it to check file types. --- CHANGELOG | 1 + modules/lookup_dir.c | 4 ---- 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG index 460bd27..c9be73e 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ - fix submount offset delete. - fix init script status return. - fix use get_proximity() without libtirpc. +- don't use dirent d_type to filter out files in scandir() 25/07/2012 autofs-5.0.7 ======================= diff --git a/modules/lookup_dir.c b/modules/lookup_dir.c index 658cc29..33901c0 100644 --- a/modules/lookup_dir.c +++ b/modules/lookup_dir.c @@ -103,10 +103,6 @@ static int acceptable_dirent_p(const struct dirent *e) { size_t namesz; - - if (!(e->d_type == DT_REG || e->d_type == DT_LNK)) - return 0; - namesz = strlen(e->d_name); if (!namesz) return 0;