Re: Squashfs without ./..

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Followup to:  <[email protected]>
By author:    Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> 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...
> 

Are you seriously suggesting changing our behaviour of all the
conventional filesystems to a non-Unix behaviour, to match cramfs and
squashfs?

	-hpa
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