Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:01:04 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Squashfs without ./.. |
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>> Which scripts use that? As stated, these two directory entries exist when you >> stat() them, they just do not show up in readdir(), and I bet few programs >> care for "." and ".." when doing their readdir. > >There's probably a number of apps that skip the first two dirents, instead >of checking for the dot dirs.
Does POSIX or some standard say that . and .. need to be the first two entries?
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