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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: help removing a file
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Date: 7 Sep 90 18:31:08 GMT
References: <1990Sep5.180847.21767@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1990Sep6.183808.20578@Matrix.COM>
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In article <1990Sep6.183808.20578@Matrix.COM> abc@Matrix.COM (Alan Clegg)
writes:
>Well, I managed to get a file with a '/' (slash) in its name ...
>Anyway, it seems to me that DUMP/RESTORE should look for 'badness' in file
>names (or maybe not).
>
>****** What DUMP writes, RESTORE should be able to restore. *******

Well, yes and no.  In this case the bug is not in either dump or restore,
but rather in fsck, which permitted an invalid name to remain.

This bug is fixed in 4.3BSD-reno (fsck/dir.c, routine dirchk).
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