Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261994AbVCWRt3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:49:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262003AbVCWRt3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:49:29 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:14057 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261994AbVCWRt1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:49:27 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:49:25 -0500 From: Tom Vier To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Pietro Zuco , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Squashfs without ./.. Message-ID: <20050323174925.GA3272@zero> Reply-To: Tom Vier References: <200503231740.09572.maillist@zuco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 16 On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:31:24PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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. There's probably a number of apps that skip the first two dirents, instead of checking for the dot dirs. -- Tom Vier DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE - 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/