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    SubjectRe: Squashfs without ./..
    >> > 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 ..)?


    Jan Engelhardt
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