filenames starting with tilde character
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How does Debian LINUX react if it encounters a filename starting
with a tilde character '~'? On the SCO UNIX system at work, a
MS-DOS program accessing the UNIX filesystem via NFS created
several temporary files which started with the tilde character
(which seems to be a standard practice under MS-DOS). UNIX
programs trying to read the directory containing these files
would freeze up so thoroughly that even 'kill -9' wouldn't kill
the processes; they only went away once the system was rebooted.
I was told by someone that this is a known bug in UNIX. I
haven't had the nerve to test this under LINUX, since I finally
had to use the 'clri' command to clear out the inodes associated
with the files, then use 'fsck' to recover the disk space. If
LINUX allows a non-LINUX computer to create such files via NFS,
it could have the same vunerability as SCO UNIX.
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