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From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>
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Subject: Re: cat: A bug or just as it should be?
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Jonathan Chen wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 12:08:12AM +0200, Paul Everlund wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > fw# ls -l
> > total 2
> > drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel  512 20 Mar 01:20 home
> > fw#
> >
> > Doing a 'cat *' there gives the following result
> > (edited somewhat by me: "UUU" means an active user
> > and "uuu" means an user who has been removed):
> > hE?
> >    ??.<8?
> >          ??..· "UUU"yF?
> >                           ??"uuu"·???"UUU"-pF?¶?
> > "UUU"fF????"UUU"lQ-gF????"UUU"mQ-:????"UUU"^F?
> >
> > ??w
> > ww¦C?h??        "UUU"-C?T??"uuu"fw#
> >
> > Those "uuu" users, removed ones, are in no .his-
> > tory as there are no history file in the directory
> > /usr/home.
> 
> You are cat'ing the contents of the directory "home" and getting
> binary output.

Yep. But why does REMOVED directories show up? In another directory
removed files too shows up. Is this good? I can understand that dirs
and files that are on the HDD shows, but removed ones? Is this due
to left behind references of some kind?

Best regards,
Paul

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