Re: Behavior of directory-files on Windows

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:46:48 +0100
>> 
>> I think adding both c:/. and c:/.. to listing of directory-files doesn't
>> arm.
>> It's what I did here (in anything) and it is nice feature IMO.
>> On GNU/Linux, having "." and ".." in (directory-files "/") is not a
>> problem.
>> 
>> Do you think this can create problems in some places?
>
> It won't create problems if done thoroughly: you need to invent all of
> the file-attributes for these fake entries, including such obscure
> ones as number of links etc.  And you need to handle the cases where
> there are real directory entries by those names, so as not to clobber
> accurate information.
Ok, I see, thanks for this comment.

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