Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!think!barmar
From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: bad filenames
Message-ID: <20800@think.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 22:30:43 GMT
References: <14418@brl-adm.ARPA>
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In article <14418@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>   From: David Goodenough <dg@lakart.uucp>
>   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).
>
>By a stray neutrino zapping the directory entry.

If you use memory and disk without ECC, you deserve to lose this way.
(Unfortunately, I think most personal computers don't have any memory
ECC -- users of A/UX should flame heavily at Apple about this.)

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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