Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262001AbVCWRcv (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:32:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261985AbVCWRcu (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:32:50 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:15327 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262776AbVCWRb1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:31:27 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:31:24 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Pietro Zuco cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Squashfs without ./.. In-Reply-To: <200503231740.09572.maillist@zuco.org> Message-ID: References: <200503231740.09572.maillist@zuco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 546 Lines: 16 >I agree with Jan. >The . / .. will be useful for some scripts that use it. Which scripts use that? As stated, these two directory entries exist when you stat() them, they just do not show up in readdir(), and I bet few programs care for "." and ".." when doing their readdir. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/