Re: file:list_dir/1 cannot lists dot(.) and dot-dot(..) directories
Nicolas Martyanoff <[email protected]>
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Vimal Kumar <[email protected]> writes: > 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. Other programming languages handle it as expected, e.g. in Ruby: Dir.entries(".") On UNIX, . and .. are indeed no real files, but they behave as hardlinks. Not being able to use them for example to list the content of a directory is indeed a bug. -- Nicolas Martyanoff http://snowsyn.net [email protected]