I tried to run the following Go code:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
)
func main() {
items, err := ioutil.ReadDir("/dev/fd")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
fmt.Println(items)
}
I just get this error:
panic: lstat /dev/fd/4: bad file descriptor
goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
/Users/andy/Desktop/demo.go:11 +0xe8
exit status 2
The /dev/fd
folder definitely exists, and there is a /dev/fd/4
inside there when I ls
it.
$ ls -Al /dev/fd
total 9
crw--w---- 1 andy tty 16, 4 Jan 25 00:16 0
crw--w---- 1 andy tty 16, 4 Jan 25 00:16 1
crw--w---- 1 andy tty 16, 4 Jan 25 00:16 2
dr--r--r-- 3 root wheel 4419 Jan 23 20:42 3/
dr--r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 23 20:42 4/
What's going on? Why can't I read this directory? I'm trying to port the ls
command to Go here, so I would like to be able to read this directory in order to produce similar output to ls
.
EDIT: I am running everything as non-root user. The executable bit on /dev/fd
is set.
$ ls -al /dev | grep fd
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Jan 23 20:42 fd/
$ stat /dev/fd/4 # same result with -L flag
stat: /dev/fd/4: stat: Bad file descriptor