Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote:

> So, back to the original, they're there because they make the filsystem
> design consistent (it has up and down pointers - if one ignores mount
> points...)

The explicit . and .. entries do not make "the filsystem design consistent",
they just made the V7 filesystem design easier and smaller.

My WOFS does not have them because they would have made the WOFS implementation
much much harder.

Jörg

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