Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261386AbVC0B5R (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:57:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261416AbVC0B5R (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:57:17 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([209.128.68.125]:43174 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261386AbVC0B5O (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:57:14 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: Squashfs without ./.. Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 01:56:26 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, which We do not fancy Message-ID: References: <3e74c9409b6e383b7b398fe919418d54@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1111888586 4518 127.0.0.1 (27 Mar 2005 01:56:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 01:56:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 884 Lines: 22 Followup to: By author: Jan Engelhardt In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > You are right. . and .. do not need to show up (even they have been the > "leaders" of ls -l ;-), Midnight Commander (`mc`) for example synthesizes ".." > nevertheless. > > So - what about removing . and .. in readdir for all "standard harddisk > filesystems" (ext*,reiser*, [jx]fs)? I mean, one party always has to loose... > Are you seriously suggesting changing our behaviour of all the conventional filesystems to a non-Unix behaviour, to match cramfs and squashfs? -hpa - 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/