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

From: Andrey Borzenkov (arvidjaar@mail.ru)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 06:47:04 EST


> > bor@itsrm2% cd foo
> > bor@itsrm2% sudo rmdir /tmp/foo
> > bor@itsrm2% ls -la .
> > .: No such file or directory
> >
> > how do I access this? OK I could have opendir on it ... but then,
>
> You should access it through getcwd(2). Try 'ls -al'. readdir has
> special case for such directories (IS_DEADDIR), so it will come up as
> empty without dot and dotdot.
>

OK I tried it not under Linux the first time.

Tnx

-andrey

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