Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 03:25:09 -0200 (GMT+2)
From: John Leuner <jewel@pixie.co.za>
Why is it possible to do:
tatyana:/mnt# cat /mnt/floppy/
.8..tatyana:/mnt#
Because directories are in fact just files. So you can read them as
ordinary files. You'll probably screw up your terminal though. Linux
doesn't let you do this, but BSD and other Unix derivatives do.
Mark