Re: Special file names "." and ".." in READDIR response

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From: Jude Giampaolo (jude@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu)
Date: 11/03/99-04:45:14 AM Z 

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 06:45:14 -0400
From: Jude Giampaolo <jude@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu>
Subject: Re: Special file names "." and ".." in READDIR response

At 11:27 PM -0800 11/2/99, Brent wrote:

>I like Neil's suggestion to reserve values.  Cookie 0 is already
>reserved.
>Why not also reserve cookies 1 and 2.  Then the server
>can construct valid cookies just by adding 2 to the cookie
>value.  I'm sure the server can manage with those two cookie values
>missing from its cookie space.

I have to agree with this. When I wrote a v2 server, special casing '.' and
'..' was a pain. Having special cookie values would have gone a long way in
solving the problem.

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Jude Giampaolo
jude@ktb.ee.psu.edu
jude@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu

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