Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263070AbVCXHBl (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:01:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263072AbVCXHBk (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:01:40 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:61369 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263070AbVCXHBO (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:01:14 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:01:04 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Tom Vier cc: Pietro Zuco , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Squashfs without ./.. In-Reply-To: <20050323174925.GA3272@zero> Message-ID: References: <200503231740.09572.maillist@zuco.org> <20050323174925.GA3272@zero> 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: 669 Lines: 19 >> 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. Does POSIX or some standard say that . and .. need to be the first two entries? 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/