help removing a file

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.umd.edu
Sat Sep 8 04:31:08 AEST 1990


In article <1990Sep6.183808.20578 at Matrix.COM> abc at 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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