Re: [10/12] fix handling of '/' embedded in filenames in isofs

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jun 14 2004 - 03:34:33 EST


On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:45:16PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> * Fix slashes in broken Acorn ISO9660 images in fs/isofs/dir.c (Darren Salt)
> This fixes Debian BTS #141660.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=141660
>
> From: Darren Salt <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Message-ID: <4B238BA09A%linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: submit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Handle '/' in filenames in broken ISO9660 images
>
> [Also applicable to 2.2.x]
>
> There has been for some time a problem with certain CD-ROMs whose images were
> generated using a particular tool on Acorn RISC OS. The problem is that in
> certain catalogue entries, the extension separator character '/' (RISC OS
> uses '.' and '/' the other way round) was not replaced with '.'; thus Linux
> cannot properly parse this without this patch, thinking that it is a
> directory separator.

-fsdevel is the right list and if you checked I already sent a rfc there
for this and the other iso9660 patch.
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