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I thought ".." was a hardlink to the parent directory created when a directory was created? Hence the kernel doesn't actually have to treat ".." as anything spe

by rmc 13y ago

I thought ".." was a hardlink to the parent directory created when a directory was created? Hence the kernel doesn't actually have to treat ".." as anything special, since, due to hardlinks, "it'll all work out"?

asperous 13y ago
I hope not, that'd be such a waste
derleth 13y ago
I think the point is that the character encoding scheme can't use "." or ".." for its own purposes because they already have meaning due to filesystem conventions.