Re: Squashfs without ./..

>I agree with Jan.
>The . / .. will be useful for some scripts that use it.

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.


Jan Engelhardt
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