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. -- Benjamin Franz _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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