On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Tom Vier wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:31:24PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Which scripts use that? As stated, these two directory entries exist when > > you > > stat() them, they just do not show up in readdir(), and I bet few programs > > care for "." and ".." when doing their readdir. > > 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). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/