Aucbvax.2613
fa.unix-wizards
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards
Mon Aug 10 20:33:37 1981
nulls in directories
>From decvax!duke!phs!dennis@Berkeley Mon Aug 10 20:23:26 1981
Here's a general query:
We have a memory problem which sometimes causes nasty things like nulls
to appear in directory entries. Since namei() compares the full 14
characters of filename, but the gathering of a filename passed to a
system call stops at the first null (reasonably enough), these
filenames can never be opened, statted, or accessed.
The question is this: is there any reason not to include a check in
namei which stops comparison at the first null? I don't think so;
maybe someone out there can point out any folly in this.
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