Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:52:10 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Squashfs without ./.. |
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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. >
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Yeah, let's fix every broken application on the planet instead of fixing it in one place...
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