29 Dec
2009
29 Dec
'09
6:49 p.m.
John R Pierce wrote:
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
You mean new to the concept of files and directories? This is not Linux-only. The . and .. existed even in MS-DOS back in the 80's.
having an actual . and .. file in a directory is a distinctly Unix practice. It leads to some funny behavior too, especially when combined with symlinks
Umm. No. Try launching a 'cmd' shell under Windows (whatever version) and doing a 'dir' anywhere except the root directory and you will see '.' and '..' entries.
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Benjamin Franz