unlink(inode)? or how to remove file with '/' in its name

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Wed Oct 31 12:28:36 AEST 1990


>For whatever silly reason, the Sun NFS server code does not check for
>`impossible' characters in each file lookup or create operation.

The reason is "nobody thought of putting such a check in".  I think
SunOS 4.1 does do the check.  (Auspex servers do the check as well, and
I suspect some but not all other vendors do.)



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