On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 10:23:29AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Umm.. We _never_ use "." and ".." in filesystems. Never.
Surely ".." is of some value (perhaps not now, but maybe in the
future) to e2fsck is the disk gets corrupted?
In fact, the '..' directory entry is used by e2fsck as a sanity check to
make sure that the directory hierarchy is sane.
- Ted
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