Re: Are "," and ".." in directory required?

From: Nikita Danilov (Nikita@Namesys.COM)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 05:01:36 EST

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"Andrey Borzenkov" writes:
>
> Is it possible for readdir to return really empty directory - without
> and entry, even "." and ".."?

Enter empty directory. Remove it by rmdir() by another process. Now you
have a directory without dot and dotdot.

>
> TIA
>
> -andrey

Nikita.
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