era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold) (06/28/90)
Am looking for someone who has solved the following filesystem problem. Some of our users on MS-DOS machines have been uploading files to 4.0.3 Sun machines, whose filenames contain a '/'. I haven't figured out how, but they're somehow coaxing the Sun into actually making a directory entry which contains a slash (haven't been able to duplicate this via either a creat() or open() syscall). If such a directory is ls-ed, output like "x/y.coords" results, but such directory entries cannot be simply or recursively removed. Since the system maintains directories, I can't patch some other char into the directory and, so far as I know, Sun doesn't provide any utility such as "fsdb". Please reply to me via e-mail if you've had this problem and solved it. Will summarize to this group if I receive any replies. Ed Arnold * NCAR * POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000 * 303-497-1253(w) era@ncar.ucar.edu [128.117.64.4] * era@ncario.bitnet * era@ncar.uucp "See, the human mind is kind of like ... a pinata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside." --Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (06/29/90)
One way I have found to remove file with "funny" names that defy standard
methods of access or removal is to use the dired (driectory editor) mode
of emacs.
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