On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Ryan Flannery <[email protected]> wrote: ... > I can get the inode of the file with ls(1), and used that to write the > following program which I thought would help, but sadly it too fails. ... > /* open directory */ > DIR *usr; > if ((usr = opendir("/usr")) == NULL) > err(1, "failed to opendir"); ... > /* cross fingers */ > printf("\n\nattempting to unlink...\n"); > if (unlink(entry->d_name) < 0) > err(1, "failure, crack 'nother beer"); ... > Questions: > 1. Any whacks of a clue-stick would be greatly appreciated.
So you listed /usr and found the problem name and then you try to remove that file from your current directory. Is your current directory /usr ? > 2. When I printf dirent struct's d_namlen field, is says 302... > grep'ing /usr/include, isn't this 255? How can this happen? Hmm, what type of filesystem is /usr ? > 3. Passing the d_name field directly to unlink(2)... this should > work, correct? (I tried this with a sample setup elsewhere and it > did). Any thoughts why this would fail? Yes, modulus current vs listed directory issues. Philip Guenther
