Re: Squashfs without ./..

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> > There's probably a number of apps that skip the first two dirents, instead
>> > of checking for the dot dirs.
>> Yep, check `-noleaf' in find(1)
>Then it is broken in several ways.  
>First, file systems are not required to implement ".." (only "." is
>magical, ".." is a courtesy).  

Heh, what would happen if .. disappeared? Would `cd ..` become impossible 
(even if it is a shell builtin, it probably stat()s for ..)?


Jan Engelhardt
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