Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:47:47 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Squashfs without ./.. |
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>> > There's probably a number of apps that skip the first two dirents, instead >> > of checking for the dot dirs. >> Yep, check `-noleaf' in find(1) >Then it is broken in several ways. >First, file systems are not required to implement ".." (only "." is >magical, ".." is a courtesy).
Heh, what would happen if .. disappeared? Would `cd ..` become impossible (even if it is a shell builtin, it probably stat()s for ..)?
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