Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 18:53:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Numbers of links for directories
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On Sun, 14 Apr 1996, DJ Delorie wrote:

> To be really clean, we should fake out the "." and ".." directories
> for "/" under opendir().

That means that `stat' should also return the number of links for the root
as if there were "." and ".." there.  But I'm a bit worried about this: 
won't it mean that we will have to pretend these two are there throughout 
most of the library?  For instance, stat ("/..") should return valid 
info instead of failing, right?  What about chmod ("/..")?  What about 
non-POSIX functions (like `findfirst')?  Etc., etc.  Seems like libc 
rewrite ;-).

>                I think the lack of these two causes corrupt
> images with mkisofs, which only works when making images of
> subdirectories.

What are these `mkisofs'?