[TUHS] tar on v6 not creating directories on v6

[will.senn@gmail.com (Will Senn)]

On 12/12/15 4:23 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2015-Dec-12 15:53:54 -0600, Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That was ugly and all of it was output. What exactly did I wind up with?:
>> # ls -l
>> total 19
>> drwxrwxrwx  2 root       32 Oct 10 12:54 y
>> -rw-rw-rw-  1 root     8704 Oct 10 12:54 t.tar
>>
>> Ugh. Probably don't need the y directory...
>> # rmdir y
>> y ?
>> # ls y
>> y not found
> Presumably, it's not 'y' but has some non-printable characters in it.
> You could try "od -c ." to see what the entry actually is, or move
> t.tar out of the way and "rm -r" remove the next level up.
>
It looks like you are correct about it not being 'y':

# od -c .
0000000  I \?  . \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000020 \? \0  .  . \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000040  K \?  t  .  t  a  r \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000060  N \? \? \? \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000100


I moved t.tar out and then tried rm -r, it complained (t is the parent):
# rm -r t
No match

I don't think rm -r will delete directories, but only the files in the 
directory.

>> I think this error is simply an effect related to the failure to create
>> the necessary directories properly.
> If you run "mkdir foo" from the shell, does it work properly?  That will
> let you split between the problem being in tar and the problem being in
> mkdir.  Adding some printf()s to checkdir() seems a reasonable step.
>
Yes, mkdir foo works. I'll add the print statements.

Thanks,

will