From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Tommy Reynolds <Tommy.Reynolds@MegaCoder.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Squashfs without ./..
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:31:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeu0n0ptfz.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503242047000.8883@yvahk01.tjqt.qr> (Jan Engelhardt's message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:47:47 +0100 (MET)")
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> writes:
>>> > 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).
>
> Heh, what would happen if .. disappeared?
"." and ".." are handled in the VFS. No filesystem code ever sees them
during lookup.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-24 22:31 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 [this message]
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
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2005-03-27 8:11 Adam J. Richter
2005-03-27 8:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
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