Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!usc!apple!voder!pyramid!ctnews!mitisft!dold From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Two identical filenames in one directory! Message-ID: <1246@mitisft.Convergent.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 15:08:42 GMT References: <22@minya.UUCP> Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA Lines: 15 in article <22@minya.UUCP>, jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) says: > On earlier versions of Unix, I'd know instantly what to do. It's easy enough > to write a program that runs thru a directory and extends each null byte to > the end of the entry. But on Sys/V, this doesn't work, because nobody, not > even root, can write a directory. I don't know about that. Certainly fsdb can write to a directory. So can ld. -- --- Clarence A Dold - dold@tsmiti.Convergent.COM (408) 434-5293 ...pyramid!ctnews!tsmiti!dold P.O.Box 6685, San Jose, CA 95150-6685 MS#10-007