Funny filenames: so far, no good... (2.9BSD)

[Ken Turkowski]

In article <520 at x.UUCP> john at x.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
>> I've had a number of responses on how to remove the file whose name is
>> 	\t 360 200 035 002 \0
>> but no one has won yet.  Most people recommended using unlink(2) like this:
>> 	main() {
>> 		unlink("\t\360\200\035\002");
>> 	}
>> but this fails. 	...
>> That failed too.  Holy filename, Batman!  What next?
>> 	Jeff Percival ...!uwvax!uwmacc!jwp
>
>If that fails, you must have the "`feature'" turned on where 2.9 strips
>out "`illegal'" characters in file names.  If so, you have one-and-a-half
>options:
>(.75)  Go to your kernel sources, remove that feature, bulk-erase your
>distribution tape so it will never come back, recompile and reboot.  Then
>do the unlink, unmolested by malfeatures.
>(1.5)  Open the raw disk for writing with adb.  When I have to patch disks
>by hand, I always print up extra copies of section 5 of the manual to
>have them arrayed in front of me...
>
>If you don't have sources, you're stuck with the second.  Neither of them
>is enjoyable, but at least the first cures it forever.

You can also zap the inode with clri, and let fsck remove it.
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