Re: Squashfs without ./..

Uttered Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>, spake thus:

> > 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).  

Second, skipping the first two entries carries an implied assumtion
about the file name sorting order that is not portable in a
non-US-ASCII world.

Cheers

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