Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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...
>
Are you seriously suggesting changing our behaviour of all the
conventional filesystems to a non-Unix behaviour, to match cramfs and
squashfs?
-hpa
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