eschle@forty2.physik.unizh.ch (Patrik Eschle) (12/19/90)
The following is on Concentrix 5.5 (BSD 4.3).
We have somehow (a PC and NFS were involved) succeeded to create the
following directory entries:
% \ls -aliqF
total 3
351 drwxrwxrwx 2 eschle 1024 Dec 19 12:57 /
347 drwxrwxrwx 2 eschle 1024 Dec 19 12:57 ./
57547 drwxr-xr-x 18 eschle 1024 Dec 19 10:48 ../
The first directory with inode nr. 351 has a filename of length 0.
We found no way to either remove this directory or it's parent.
It seems, that 'opendir("")' returns a pointer to the current
directory '.'. This makes it impossible to access this no-name
directory.
The friendly kernel denies even root the right to simply overwrite the
whole directory.
Before we start to write to the raw disk (Stefan is actually already
typing ;-): is there some legal way to remove this directory?
Please answer by e-mail, I'll summarize.
Thanks,
Patrik
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