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From: Tommy Reynolds <Tommy.Reynolds@MegaCoder.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Squashfs without ./..
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:36:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050324133628.196a4c41.Tommy.Reynolds@MegaCoder.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503241855350.18295@numbat.sonytel.be>

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Uttered Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, 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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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-24 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-22 15:47 Squashfs without ./ Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-22 15:59 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-23 16:40   ` Pietro Zuco
2005-03-23 17:31     ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-23 17:49       ` Tom Vier
2005-03-24  7:01         ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-24 17:55         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-03-24 19:36           ` Tommy Reynolds [this message]
2005-03-24 19:47             ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-24 22:31               ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-24 19:59             ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-03-24 20:13               ` Kyle Moffett
2005-03-24 20:36                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-03-25 13:59                   ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-27  4:05                     ` Jan Harkes
2005-03-27  9:16                       ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-25 14:39                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-03-26  3:48                 ` Phil Lougher
2005-03-26  3:52                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-03-26  2:14                     ` Phillip Lougher
2005-04-20  4:39                       ` Jörn Engel
2005-03-26 10:03                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-27  1:56                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-03-26  2:39           ` Paul Jackson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-27  8:11 Adam J. Richter
2005-03-27  8:51 ` Jan Engelhardt

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