Why does dirEntries in std/file.d do that (POSIX version)?:

            for (dirent* fdata; (fdata = readdir(_stack[$-1].h)) != null; )
            {
                // Skip "." and ".."
                if (core.stdc.string.strcmp(&fdata.d_name[0], ".") &&
                    core.stdc.string.strcmp(&fdata.d_name[0], ".."))
                {
                    _cur = DirEntry(_stack[$-1].dirpath, fdata);
                    return true;
                }
            }

There seems to be no switch to disable the skip of "."  and "..".
So the original position of these dir entries is lost. ☹

On Saturday, 9 January 2021 at 18:44:10 UTC, kdevel wrote:
> There seems to be no switch to disable the skip of "."  and "..".
> So the original position of these dir entries is lost. ☹

I imagine dirEntries returning an entry for ".." would make for a lot of confusion.

Don't you already know "." as the path you passed to dirEntries? What exactly are you trying to do?

On Sunday, 10 January 2021 at 20:39:56 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 January 2021 at 18:44:10 UTC, kdevel wrote:
>> There seems to be no switch to disable the skip of "."  and "..".
>> So the original position of these dir entries is lost. ☹
>
> I imagine dirEntries returning an entry for ".." would make for a lot of confusion.

IMHO the application programmer/software engineer needs no such
protection. [sarcasm deleted]

> Don't you already know "." as the path you passed to dirEntries?

I don't know the change date, the uid/gid etc.

> What exactly are you trying to do?

I am refactoring a Filebrowser.

On 10.01.21 23:15, kdevel via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> Don't you already know "." as the path you passed to dirEntries?
> 
> I don't know the change date, the uid/gid etc.

Not as sexy, but can't you manually construct DirEntries [1] by supplying the paths via std.path [2]? DirName [3] should give you the current/parent directory, for example.

[1] https://dlang.org/library/std/file/dir_entry.html
[2] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_path.html
[3] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_path.html#.dirName