From 66d8935bb921a6ca5b4f2c5e0bdf5dcdf8d9c28d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 09:38:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Change the logic in mutt_open_read to only catch directories
 -- mutt may legitimately read devices (think /dev/null) or named pipes. Also
 delegate error reporting to the calling function by setting errno.

---
 muttlib.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/muttlib.c b/muttlib.c
index 8370a3e8..5f155147 100644
--- a/muttlib.c
+++ b/muttlib.c
@@ -1152,13 +1152,10 @@ FILE *mutt_open_read (const char *path, pid_t *thepid)
   else
   {
     if (stat (path, &s) < 0)
-    {
-      mutt_error (_("%s: stat: %s"), path, strerror (errno));
       return (NULL);
-    }
-    if (!S_ISREG (s.st_mode))
+    if (S_ISDIR (s.st_mode))
     {
-      mutt_error (_("%s: not a regular file"), path);
+      errno = EINVAL;
       return (NULL);
     }
     f = fopen (path, "r");
-- 
2.40.0