Re: Squashfs without ./..

[H. Peter Anvin]

Phil Lougher wrote:
> Making readdir return '.' and '..' is trivially easy, as all the
> required information to fake '.' and '..' entries are present.
>
> The lack of '.' and '..' entries hasn't caused any problems despite
> cramfs/squashfs being used for a large number of years.  I'm inclined
> to believe any application that _relies_ on seeing '.' and '..'
> returned by readdir is broken.  This situation is easily fixed within
> the application rather than forcing the filesystem to unnecessarily
> fake '.' and '..' entries which are never used.

<sarcasm>

Yeah, let's fix every broken application on the planet instead of fixing 
it in one place...

</sarcasm>

	-hpa
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