Two identical filenames in one directory!
Clarence Dold
dold at mitisft.Convergent.COM
Sat Sep 30 01:08:42 AEST 1989
in article <22 at minya.UUCP>, jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers) says:
> On earlier versions of Unix, I'd know instantly what to do. It's easy enough
> to write a program that runs thru a directory and extends each null byte to
> the end of the entry. But on Sys/V, this doesn't work, because nobody, not
> even root, can write a directory.
I don't know about that.
Certainly fsdb can write to a directory.
So can ld.
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