Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!cfisun!lakart!dg
From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: bad filenames
Message-ID: <104@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 88 14:07:59 GMT
References: <10777@steinmetz.ge.com>
Organization: Lake - The systems people
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From article <10777@steinmetz.ge.com>, by davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr):
> Is there a better way to get rid of a file with a '/' in the name
> than diddling the directory? "rm -i *" sure doesn't work here!

Since this is a UNIX (tm) group I'm going to ask "how was a file with a '/'
in it's name created?" I *_CANT_* do it here (BSD 4.3).

And regarding it's removal, "rm -i *" will fail because * expands, and
rm gets a name with a '/' in it, so unlink(2) starts looking for sub-
directories. Even an "rm -ir ." may well fail, because the string that
gets handed to unlink(2) (and presumably namei()) still has a '/' in it.

(If this is a SYS V problem then some of what I have said may be wrong -
I have never worked with SYS V - just BSD 4.X)
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