Re: Squashfs without ./..

[Jesper Juhl]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Kyle Moffett wrote:
> > 
> > IMHO, this is one of those cases where "Be liberal in what you accept
> > and strict in what you emit" applies strongly.  New filesystems should
> > probably always emit "." and ".." in that order with sane behavior,
> > and new programs should probably be able to handle it if they don't. I
> > would add ".." and "." to squashfs, just so that it acts like the rest
> > of the filesystems on the planet, even if it has to emulate them
> > internally.  OTOH, I think that the default behavior of find is broken
> > and should probably be fixed, maybe by making the default use the full
> > readdir and optionally allowing a -fast option that optimizes the
> > search using such tricks.
> > 
> 
> Note that Linux always accepts . and .. so it's just a matter of making them
> appear in readdir.
> 
I'm working on that, but it's a learning experience for me, so it's going 
a bit slow - but I'll get there.

-- 
Jesper Juhl


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