Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:36:52 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Squashfs without ./.. |
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Kyle Moffett wrote: > > IMHO, this is one of those cases where "Be liberal in what you accept > and strict in what you emit" applies strongly. New filesystems should > probably always emit "." and ".." in that order with sane behavior, > and new programs should probably be able to handle it if they don't. I > would add ".." and "." to squashfs, just so that it acts like the rest > of the filesystems on the planet, even if it has to emulate them > internally. OTOH, I think that the default behavior of find is broken > and should probably be fixed, maybe by making the default use the full > readdir and optionally allowing a -fast option that optimizes the > search using such tricks. >
Note that Linux always accepts . and .. so it's just a matter of making them appear in readdir.
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