On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, moz lala wrote:

> 
> --- Micah Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Do you mean that you have a corrupt .torrent file
> > that has a path like
> > /a/b//c/filename where there is an empty componant
> > between b and c?
> 
> I get a .torrent file like:
> ...
> directory name: test
> files.........: 
>    by someone/ (0)
> 
> I guess it's actually some seed maker list empty
> directory in that way. But bittornado treat it as a
> filename with a path.

This does not mean an empty directory, its a file with an empty
filename part.

> > The mainline bittorrent code now just ignores files
> > with an illegal
> > path as long as they have size 0.
> 
> This could be the solution. Anyway, the bug just shows
> that there are seed maker do such things out there.

Can you look at the .torrent to see if it was created with the
bitcomet program? Bitcomet seems to add comments with its name in the
.torrent so it should be obvious. Bitcomet does these sorts of things.

Micah


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