dirEntries: How get "." and ".."?

[kdevel]

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.