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by cesarb
2322 days ago
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> As for . and .. I believe that on UNIX they are just symlinks, though they may be treated specially by applications? No, they are treated specially by the kernel and/or the filesystem. They behave similar to hardlinks to the corresponding directory (hardlinks to directories aren't allowed nowadays, these two are an exception). The special treatment by applications is that many applications hide all files and directories starting with a dot, which happens to also apply to these two. |
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