Comments by "eDoc2020" (@eDoc2020) on "Linux Dot Files Were Never Meant To Exist" video.

  1. Most filesystems don't actually have these special entries, it's emulated for compatibility reasons.
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  2.  @pennyandrews3292  A minor point, the kernel doesn't care at all. It's only userland stuff.
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  3.  @cigmorfil4101  In MS-DOS the kernel uses the stored . and .. entries in that way. As you said on anything Unixy you have mount points but the feature which really precludes using .. entries directly is symbolic links.
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  4.  @cigmorfil4101  It seems you're right. I was under the impression it was the other way around. Probably because when you cd with the shell it behaves the way I described. In related, I just discovered the pwd -P command which shows the true current directory without using any symlinks.
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