Re: Squashfs without ./..

[Jan Engelhardt]

>This situation is easily fixed within
>the application rather than forcing the filesystem to unnecessarily
>fake '.' and '..' entries which are never used.

You are right. . and .. do not need to show up (even they have been the 
"leaders" of ls -l ;-), Midnight Commander (`mc`) for example synthesizes ".." 
nevertheless.

So - what about removing . and .. in readdir for all "standard harddisk 
filesystems" (ext*,reiser*, [jx]fs)? I mean, one party always has to loose...


Jan Engelhardt
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