From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Phil Lougher <phil.lougher@gmail.com>
Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Squashfs without ./..
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:52:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4244DC6A.3020304@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cce9e37e0503251948527d322b@mail.gmail.com>
Phil Lougher wrote:
>
> Making readdir return '.' and '..' is trivially easy, as all the
> required information to fake '.' and '..' entries are present.
>
> The lack of '.' and '..' entries hasn't caused any problems despite
> cramfs/squashfs being used for a large number of years. I'm inclined
> to believe any application that _relies_ on seeing '.' and '..'
> returned by readdir is broken. This situation is easily fixed within
> the application rather than forcing the filesystem to unnecessarily
> fake '.' and '..' entries which are never used.
>
<sarcasm>
Yeah, let's fix every broken application on the planet instead of fixing
it in one place...
</sarcasm>
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-26 3:52 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
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 [this message]
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
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2005-03-27 8:11 Adam J. Richter
2005-03-27 8:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
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