Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 22:14:24 EST


On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> For example, you _could_ probably (but hey, maybe "tar" tries to strip
> slashes off the end of filenames, so this might not work due to silly
> reasons like that) back up a compound file with
>
> tar cvf file.tar file file/

So you'd have both a file and a directory that just happen
to have the same name ? How would this work in the dcache?

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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