Read that part again: > It was in assembler then, but the code in question was equivalent to something like this: > if (name[0] == '.') continue; > This s

Read that part again: > It was in assembler then, but the code in question was equivalent to something like this: > if (name[0] == '.') continue; > This statement was a little shorter than what it should have been, which is > if (strcmp(name, ".") == 0 || strcmp(name, "..") == 0) continue; There's no strcmp() in the first example.