Removing garbage files

[Dave Hammond]

In article <13043 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <610 at atcmpe.atcmp.nl> ronald at atcmp.nl (Ronald Pikkert) writes:
>>Your shell probably strips the high order bit which causes rm to be unable
>>to delete these files.
>
>But that doesn't explain why "rm -r" would fail to remove them.

Is it possible that there is really no file with this weird name, but
the directory itself got bashed so that a directory slot which should
have zeros in the inode field actually contains garbage?  Wouldn't this
make ls think there was a file with a garbage name, but unlink would
fail causing rm to claim the file was not found?

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