>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
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