Re: Squashfs without ./..

[Andreas Schwab]

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>> > 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?

"." and ".." are handled in the VFS.  No filesystem code ever sees them
during lookup.

Andreas.

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