Re: Squashfs without ./..

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Kyle Moffett wrote:
> 
> IMHO, this is one of those cases where "Be liberal in what you accept
> and strict in what you emit" applies strongly.  New filesystems should
> probably always emit "." and ".." in that order with sane behavior,
> and new programs should probably be able to handle it if they don't. I
> would add ".." and "." to squashfs, just so that it acts like the rest
> of the filesystems on the planet, even if it has to emulate them
> internally.  OTOH, I think that the default behavior of find is broken
> and should probably be fixed, maybe by making the default use the full
> readdir and optionally allowing a -fast option that optimizes the
> search using such tricks.
> 

Note that Linux always accepts . and .. so it's just a matter of making 
them appear in readdir.

	-hpa