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.
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