Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:01:57 +0100
From: Stephane Chazelas <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
| As already discussed, like the [ .[.] = .. ] approach, that's
| not foolproof because on a given system, there can be
| directories where "." and ".." are returned by readdir() and
| some where they aren't.
That was the idea - you do this in whatever directory you care
whether . or .. might be returned or not.
It wasn't intended as a "what does the shell do" test, but a
"what will happen here" test. If there's a filesystem which
has (or doesn't have) . or .. in existing directories, but which
doesn't (or does) make them in new ones, then you're right, this
wouldn't necessarily work, but that's a filesystem I have never seen.
kre
