Re: file:list_dir/1 cannot lists dot(.) and dot-dot(..) directories

Hi,

I am not sure if any programming language (let alone Erlang) does that
while listing folder contents. The . and .. are mere references to current
folder and the parent folder by the OS, they does not exist in real if I am
not wrong.

Vimal

On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, 09:41 Yao Bao, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to list all files in a directory, then I found file:list_dir/1,
> it works fine but dot(.) and dot-dot(..) is missing.
>
> I would expect the result from file:list_dir/1 in Erlang is the same as
> readdir(dirp) in C.
>
> Is there any (historical) reason why these two special directories missing
> from the return?
>
> Cheers,
> Yao
>