Subject: Re: Bug in MSDOSFS
To: Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>
From: Bob Kemp <rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/31/1994 11:22:27
> >>Confidential:	no
> >>Synopsis:	msdosfs omits ".." in new dirs
> 
> Is this true of directories only below the root DOS directory?
> I seem to recall that DOS didn't support .. for these.

Hmmm, I'll try that variation this evening but I'm almost certain that DOS
puts ".." in every directory.  I have a C:/TMP directory created under DOS
and I'm sure that has a "..".

Anyway, the ".." entry appears after umounting/mounting the filesystem.
It looks something like a caching problem.

Bob


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