getDirectoryContents without special directories "." and ".."

Alexander Berntsen alexander at plaimi.net
Sat Dec 13 20:20:57 UTC 2014


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I don't know about non-POSIX systems, but

On 13/12/14 20:49, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> I even think that "." and ".." should not be part of the result at
> all, but that's a different discussion.
This would be horribly implicit and categorically The Wrong Thing. '.'
and '..' are not magical convenience things put there by
'getDirectoryContents'. They are actual files.
- -- 
Alexander
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