Geoff Clare <g...@opengroup.org> wrote:
> > Since I believe I was the first who implemented a filesystem without . and
> > ..
> > (my COW filesystem WOFS from 1990/1991), I would be happy if that was
> > allowed.
>
> If . and .. don't exist in the file system, then POSIX *requires* that
> the expansion of .* does not include them. What we're discussing here
> is allowing the expansion of .* not to include them when they do exist.
Since they do not need to exist, it would be nice to suppress them from .*
expansion.
Jörg
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