infinite loop caused by strange unix directories

[Guest]

Hi,

I've recently come across a small(ish) problem when comparing unix directories. In the two trees I was comparing there were two directories that caused BC to go into an infinite loop, duplicating the directory name as a subfolder indefinitely; it's caused by "invalid" characters, though I'm not sure why it expands forever.

The directories were:

1. SQL??

BC saw this as "SQL~MN", and created SQL~MN/SQL~MN/SQL~MN/...

2. someone's shell script obviously went wrong - one of the directories in this list:

drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 'yyyymmdd')/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 */
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 1:/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 ERROR/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 ORA-00942:/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 at/
-rw------- 1 104 28 5885188 Nov 15 17:12 core
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 day/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 does/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 exist/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 from/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 line/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 not/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 or/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 table/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 to_char(logical_date,/
drwxrwxr-x 2 104 28 96 Nov 15 17:11 view/

caused the dir to list only a single directory with the name "~0%", which expands forever, with a few of the other directories listed in each.

I'm using version 2.4.3

Excluding "~0%" and "SQL~MN" as directories solved the loop problem (had to cancel the operation first, obviously).

I'm not sure how the unix area is shared, though I think it's samba; I can find out if you think this is the issue.

Thanks,

William Moffatt

[Chris]

Re: infinite loop caused by strange unix directori

The character ? isn't valid for Windows filenames. If you open the same folder with ? in a folder name using Windows Explorer, it also doesn't work.

We'll consider some type of handling for invalid file and folder names in the future. This can also be an issue with files and folders created by Macs.