有无读目录（dir）这一说

最近看一个小程序，看到它打开一个目录，同时使用dirfd函数，将其打开的DIR流转化为普通的文件描述符，然后对其想普通文件一样读，

那么这个读是合法的吗，我自己有点疑惑，然后写了一个小测试程序，测试一下

#include <fcntl.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>              /* errno */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>

int main(){
        int n, result,handle;
        int length = 100;
        unsigned char data[100];
        int mode = S_IRWXU | S_IRGRP | S_IXGRP | S_IROTH | S_IXOTH;
        struct stat filestat;
        char filename[] = "/home/liujie/test.txt";
        if ((stat(filename, &filestat) == 0) && (S_ISDIR(filestat.st_mode)))
        {
                printf("the file %s is a directory/n", filename);
                DIR *dirp = opendir(filename);
                handle = dirfd(dirp);  //extract the file descriptor used by a DIR stream

                //flags_and_attributes |= FILE_DIRECTORY_FILE;
        }else{
                printf("the file %s is a file./n", filename);
                handle = open(filename, O_RDWR , mode);
        }
        n = read(handle, data, length);
        if (n < 0)
        {
                result = 0;
                switch (errno)
                {
                        case EISDIR:
                                printf("not implemented/n");
                                break;
                         default:
                                perror("read");
                               
                }
        }
        printf("the length is %d/n", n);    
        return 0;
}
结果为：

the file /home/liujie/test.txt is a file.
the length is 35

与直接运行命令 wc -m test.txt的结果一样，都是35字符（节）

如果修改，将文件改成目录，即把filename改成/home/liujie/，则结果如下
the file /home/liujie/ is a directory
not implemented

the length is -1

这说明这样读目录是不正确的，在c中参考，如果判断是目录，则使用opendir，readdir，closedir等函数来操作目录。

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