<html><body><p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi Steve,</font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Can you please look into the below query from Hannappel.</font><br><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Regards, The Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>If you feel that your question can benefit other users of Spectrum Scale (GPFS), then please post it to the public IBM developerWroks Forum at <a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000479">https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000479</a>. <br><br>If your query concerns a potential software error in Spectrum Scale (GPFS) and you have an IBM software maintenance contract please contact 1-800-237-5511 in the United States or your local IBM Service Center in other countries. <br><br>The forum is informally monitored as time permits and should not be used for priority messages to the Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team.</font><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0D59DFB540138f9e8a93df938690@ibm.com" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for "Hannappel, Juergen" ---13-01-2022 11.46.55 PM---Hi, I noticed that whe I read directory entries with"><font size="2" color="#424282" face="sans-serif">"Hannappel, Juergen" ---13-01-2022 11.46.55 PM---Hi, I noticed that whe I read directory entries with the usual readdir() function that</font><br><br><font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">From: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">"Hannappel, Juergen" <juergen.hannappel@desy.de></font><br><font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">To: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">"gpfsug main discussion list" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></font><br><font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Date: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">13-01-2022 11.46 PM</font><br><font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Subject: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">[EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] struct dirent d_type for fifos on gpfs</font><br><font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Sent by: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><tt><font size="2">Hi,<br>I noticed that whe I read directory entries with the usual readdir() function that<br>for fifos I get in the d_type files a 0, i.e. DT_UNKNOWN while if I try that on a<br>different file system e.g. ext4 I get the expected DT_FIFO.<br><br>Is this a bug or an expected feature?<br><br>-- <br>Dr. Jürgen Hannappel DESY/IT Tel. : +49 40 8998-4616<br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2"> <br></font></tt><br><br><BR>
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