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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Two identical filenames in one directory!
Message-ID: <1258@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 89 19:30:57 GMT
References: <13921@well.UUCP>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <13921@well.UUCP>, nagle@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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