Creating files/directories with numeric names

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

Ok this is the second machine that I've had this happen on and it's giving 
me both the fits and the creeps.

Suddenly on an old FC2 machine and a fedora7 machine I can no longer 
create a file or directory that has a numeric name. IE:

[root@harpo ~]# touch 9
touch: cannot touch `9': No such file or directory
[root@harpo ~]# touch 8what
[root@harpo ~]# touch 8
touch: cannot touch `8': No such file or directory
[root@harpo ~]# rm *what
rm: remove regular empty file `8what'? y
[root@harpo ~]#


The same symptoms for mkdir. This means that some normal things don't 
work, like upgrading a kernel where rpm needs to create a module directory 
called '802'.

eks

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