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SubjectRe: Squashfs without ./..
Phil Lougher wrote:
>
> Making readdir return '.' and '..' is trivially easy, as all the
> required information to fake '.' and '..' entries are present.
>
> The lack of '.' and '..' entries hasn't caused any problems despite
> cramfs/squashfs being used for a large number of years. I'm inclined
> to believe any application that _relies_ on seeing '.' and '..'
> returned by readdir is broken. This situation is easily fixed within
> the application rather than forcing the filesystem to unnecessarily
> fake '.' and '..' entries which are never used.
>

<sarcasm>

Yeah, let's fix every broken application on the planet instead of fixing
it in one place...

</sarcasm>

-hpa
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