Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!jwp
From: jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (jeffrey w percival)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Funny filenames: so far, no good... (2.9BSD)
Message-ID: <1163@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-May-85 22:09:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1163
Posted: Tue May 28 22:09:32 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 31-May-85 03:27:53 EDT
Distribution: net
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
Lines: 23


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.  One person even sent me a program that opened the directory,
searched for the entry representing the bad file, and passed that string,
unmolested in any way, to unlink:

	fd = open(".", O_RDONLY);
	... seek to proper entry ...
	read(fd, &direct, sizeof(direct));
	status = unlink(direct.d_name);

That failed too.  Holy filename, Batman!  What next?

-- 
	Jeff Percival ...!uwvax!uwmacc!jwp