Two identical filenames in one directory!

[Chris Torek]

In article <701 at ccssrv.UUCP> perry at ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) writes:
(regarding fixing a file name of the form `foo\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0x')
>Sure.  You boot DOS, run Norton Utilities in maintenance mode, search for the
>problem pattern, and patch it.  Change the 1F to 00 and the name to anything
>that doesn't duplicate some other entry in that directory.
>
>This isn't a 386?  Well you can always use adb on the raw special file.

For one thing, adb only works on block special files, since it reads and
writes one `int' at a time.  More importantly, this sort of problem is
rare enough under reasonable versions of Unix (i.e., never happens, because
fsck fixes it) that one does not need Norton Utilities.

If fsck does *not* fix it, then that is a bug in fsck.
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