Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 10/29/71 11:54

On 2006-07-31, Toby Inkster wrote:
> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>
>> The systems I use have .. in the root directory, e.g.:
>>
>> $ ls -la /
>> total 92
>> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jul 30 04:02 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jul 30 04:02 ..
>
> Right you are. Mine does too. Windows doesn't though. (In fact, I don't
> think the root directory even contains ".".)

Does Windows even have the concept of a root directory? Doesn't
each filesystem have its own?

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