bad filenames

Barry Margolin barmar at think.COM
Wed May 18 08:30:43 AEST 1988


In article <14418 at brl-adm.ARPA> rbj at icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>   From: David Goodenough <dg at 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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