NULL directory name in SunOS 3.5 THANKS TO ALL.

Andy Dougherty A_DOUGHERTY%HVRFORD.BITNET at cornellc.cit.cornell.edu
Sun Apr 15 01:03:06 AEST 1990


Thanks to all who replied.  I don't know how it happened, but from the Cshell,
a user created a subdirectory with the name '\0'.  The solution I am trying
is to use clri to remove the bad entry, and rely on fsck to clean up
afterwards.  Of course, I am making a full backup first!  On my Unisoft
Sys Vr2 based machine, I would have tried fsdb (file system debugger)
first, but in SunOS 3.5 there appears to be no such beast.

Thanks to:
        Wendy Etkind (etkind at bbn.com or uunet!bbn.com!etkind)
        guy at auspex.com
        Bernhard Weinelt <weinelt at cs.uni-sb.de>
        Rob McMahon <cudcv at CU.WARWICK.AC.UK>
    ... and any others whose names I've lost.
                                Andy Dougherty



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