LazyWeb: What is that . doing there?

So tonight I was sitting there tonight getting ready to setup cobbler for another installation source, and I noticed something very odd. # ls -l /root total 88 -rw——-. 1 root root 1176 2008-11-23 17:22 anaconda-ks.cfg drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 2008-12-14 18:37 bin See the . ? Where you ask? Look closer! drwxr-xr-x. <– [...]