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- From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: File with empty name
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- Message-ID: <716139315snx@ananke.stgt.sub.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 15:35:15 GMT
- Organization: ananke
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- How do I kill a file with an empty name in AIX 3.2 - a name of length
- 0? I don't know how I created this damned beast, maybe in a system
- crash, but now I cannot delete it.
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- Trying to delete the file, I got some funny effects. Some system calls
- accept "" as alias for the directory which contains the file so "ll -i"
- lists the inode number of the directory, "rm -r" builds a name
- consisting of some hundred slashes until it gets too long, ...
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- Danke, Andreas
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