dir for an empty directory

Question

On SunOS 5.8
dir(filemask) command returns "filemask: No such file or directory" and not an empty list like with wu-ftpd and ProFTPD.

This occurs in version 1.4.4 and also in earlier versions.

Do i have to parse the first item of the result list, to find out, whether the directory is empty, or is there another possibility?

Any help would be appreciated!
Andreas

Answer 1

You could try dir("dirname", true) and see what that returns - they are different commands.

On SunOS 5.8
dir(filemask) command returns "filemask: No such file or directory" and not an empty list like with wu-ftpd and ProFTPD.

This occurs in version 1.4.4 and also in earlier versions.

Do i have to parse the first item of the result list, to find out, whether the directory is empty, or is there another possibility?

Any help would be appreciated!
Andreas