Re: lynx-dev LYNX: meaning of "Bad partial reference; stripping leading dots"?

[mattack]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, pAb-032871 wrote:
>On many FTP servers, you may notice two "directories" [I think

They _are_ directories.

>that's what they are] in every listing, named "." and ".."  Entering
>"." puts you in the current directory [possibly a refreshed listing?],
>and ".." moves you up one directory.  The system might put these
>here automatically for some reason, I don't know much about it.

They are simply directory entries. ".." refers up one, and "." is the
current directory..  (Hmm, I was thinking that ".." may be a soft link 
to the upper directory, but I guess not..    I was thinking it was then
maybe a hard link...

/tmp % mkdir blah
/tmp % cd blah
/tmp/blah % rm ..
rm of .. is not allowed
/tmp/blah % rm -r ..
rm of .. is not allowed

(Laugh In voice:)  Verrry interrrrrresting..


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