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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Directories
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> So I think it also should advise implementations to remove "." and ".."
> mess, when possible.

I think it makes sense for directory searches to ignore "." and ".."  on
Unix-like systems.  Nothing can be 100% portable in this area, but this
change would make things more portable.  Perhaps you should send a
comment to that effect to ada-comment@ada-auth.org.

- Bob