From: Marko Schulz <in6x059@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T08:48:41+09:00
Subject: Re: a note on the . and .. discussion

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:35:07PM +0900, Patrick May wrote:
> 
> Does the mapping of "." to the current directory happen on the
> filesystem level, i.e. the directories hash of names to inodes
> contains a "." and a ".." entry?

I would be surprised if this implementation detail wouldn't be solved
in different way in different file and operating systems. Actually I
wouldn't even rely that every incarnation of UNIX (TM or not) has an
entry for '..' in the root directory.

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marko schulz