>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 -- No TOFU for me, please. - 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/
