Re: Creating files/directories with numeric names

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

Well, on another F7 machine I don't have the problem.

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Tim McDonough wrote:

> Must be something Fedora specific. "touch 9", etc. works as expected in 
> Ubuntu 7.04 and 6.06 LTS.
>
> Tim
>
> Erich Schroeder wrote:
>> 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'.
>
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