Re: Squashfs without ./..

From: Tom Vier
Date: Wed Mar 23 2005 - 12:50:25 EST


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.

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