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| From | The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] |
| Date | 2020-07-24 16:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <Aw6oW-7Zm-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On 2020-07-24 at 09:50, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:42:24AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2020-07-24 at 09:22, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> Nitpick: the directory entry is the one carrying the name. >> >> I had the impression that even a directory is stored in/as >> something that is at least analogous to an inode. Is there a >> different term that's more appropriate for the on-disk structure >> which holds a directory, vs. 'inode' for the one that holds a >> file? > > That's right: the directory is at the same time a file, and thus, > represented by the inode. But the name itself is in the content of > the directory, whithin the directory entry. Since writing that, I've had occasion to remember the term 'dirent', which I think is more the in-memory representation of a directory than the on-disk representation, but might be borrow-able for the purpose. >> It does seem to suggest that, but when I run >> >> $ /sbin/e2fsck /tmp/testfs >> >> on the tiny filesystem created as in my previous mail, it doesn't >> report finding any problems and seem to change anything. > > Hm. You gave it the -f option? Otherwise, if the file system is > marked "clean", e2fsck might choose the lazy option :-) Indeed I hadn't, and you're right, with that I get lengthier output and the file's timestamp does get updated (which previously it hadn't). However, when I examine the file with vbindiff afterwards, the slash is still there. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster rhkramer <rhkramer.s32@gmail.com> - 2020-07-22 04:10 +0200
Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-07-22 13:10 +0200
Resolved (without understanding ;-) (was: Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster) rhkramer <rhkramer.s32@gmail.com> - 2020-07-22 20:40 +0200
Re: Resolved (without understanding ;-) (was: Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-22 21:00 +0200
Re: Resolved (without understanding ;-) (was: Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-22 22:30 +0200
Re: Resolved (without understanding ; -) (was: Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-22 21:30 +0200
Re: Resolved (without understanding ; -) (was: Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-23 10:20 +0200
Re: Resolved (without understanding ; -) (was: Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-24 01:50 +0200
Re: Resolved (without understanding ; -) (was: Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-24 11:00 +0200
Re: Resolved (without understanding ; -) (was: Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-24 11:10 +0200
Antipatterns and Handcuffs [was: Re: Resolved (without understanding ...] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-24 11:30 +0200
Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-22 13:40 +0200
Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2020-07-22 17:30 +0200
Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-23 12:30 +0200
slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-24 01:20 +0200
Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-07-24 01:30 +0200
Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-24 13:50 +0200
Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-24 14:00 +0200
Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-24 15:30 +0200
Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-24 15:50 +0200
Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-24 16:00 +0200
Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-24 16:10 +0200
Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-24 16:00 +0200
Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-24 16:00 +0200
Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-24 16:00 +0200
Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-24 16:10 +0200
Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster] The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-24 14:00 +0200
Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2020-07-24 16:10 +0200
Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-24 16:20 +0200
Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-24 18:00 +0200
Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-24 20:50 +0200
Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-24 21:20 +0200
Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-25 11:40 +0200
Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2020-07-22 20:50 +0200
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