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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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