>> > 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) >Then it is broken in several ways. >First, file systems are not required to implement ".." (only "." is >magical, ".." is a courtesy).
Heh, what would happen if .. disappeared? Would `cd ..` become impossible (even if it is a shell builtin, it probably stat()s for ..)? Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/