Reading directories

[Guy Harris]

>The solution to that problem is to fix the broken programs, not to
>kludge the NFS implementation by preventing programs from reading the
>directory. In an ideal world, all the programs that need to know the
>contents of a directory would use the "portable directory routines".

The reason why the NFS implementation was kludged was to *catch* the
broken programs in question.  The 2.0 NFS implementation allowed it.