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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:58:56 -0300
From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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	Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org>, dlunev@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: ignore .. subdir and always add a link to dirs
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 05:32:47PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> writes:
> 
> > OK.
> >
> > If you want to add the workaround for this, it must emulate the correct
> > format. I.e. sane link count even if without "."/"..". And furthermore
> > it works for any operations.
> 
> Of course, it must not affect the correct format. And it should not
> accept the other really corrupted format.
> -- 
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

So far, I have only seen expected correct behavior here: mkdir/rmdir inside the
"bogus" directory works. rmdir of the "bogus" directory works.

The only idiosyncrasies I can think of is that if neither "." or ".." are
present, the directory will have a link of 1, instead of 2. And when listing
the directory, those entries will not show up.

Do you expect any of these to be corrected? It will require a more convoluted
change.

Right now, I think accepting the idiosyncratic behavior for the bogus
filesystems is fine, as long as the correct filesystems continue to behave as
before. Which seems to be the case here as far as my testing has shown.

Thank you.
Cascardo.