Filesystem readdir

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd_at_daimi.au.dk)
Date: 09/30/04

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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:12:19 +0200

Why does each filesystem's readdir implementation
need to call filldir with "." and ".."? I mean
wouldn't it be simpler if VFS could just return
those two entries on it's own and let the
filesystem code provide only those entries
specific to that filesystem?

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