Two identical filenames in one directory!

[Clarence Dold]

in article <13921 at well.UUCP>, nagle at well.UUCP (John Nagle) says:

>       Does FSCK validate filename syntax?  If it doesn't, it's a bug in
> FSCK; one should be guaranteed that once a file system passes FSCK, it is
> in a valid state.

fsck can check, but doesn't by default.  fsck -D causes a directory consistency
check, one of the inconsistencies being a file name not padded with nulls.
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