From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 6 17:12:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA19339 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 17:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA19333 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 17:12:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exalt.x.org by expo.x.org id AA02407; Mon, 6 May 96 20:12:10 -0400 Received: from localhost by exalt.x.org id UAA17615; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:12:09 -0400 Message-Id: <199605070012.UAA17615@exalt.x.org> To: Terry Lambert Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dosfsck anyone? In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 06 May 1996 16:27:20 EST. <199605062327.QAA22168@phaeton.artisoft.com> Organization: X Consortium Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 20:12:09 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > main stumbling block, though, is that clusters (other than the > > first directory cluster) will be missing '.' and '..' entries. > 2) "." and ".." are artifacts of the search interface, not > artifacts of directory structure contents in a FAT/VFAT/VFAT32 > file system. > ??? What does that mean, they're "artifacts of the search interface..." It's been years since I used MS-DOS enough to care about poking around in the file system with Norton Utilities, but as I recall "." and ".." are just like any other directory entry in a directory. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY