Avoid reading non-regular files. - #295
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Nice catch. Thanks for the submission. Ill be looking into the test issues sometime soon once I get though some other things I am working on. |
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If we try and read things like fifos we can block indefinitely trying to read. So we want to avoid reading them. Other non-regular files (other than directories and symlinks) are likely to also be weird in other ways.
As the code above this deals with symlinks and directories are expected to already be excluded I think skipping non-regular files is reasonable.
I couldn't get the tests to work on my machine before this change so I don't know if this passes them or not. There may be weird cases I haven't thought about that the tests cover.