Re: emelFM2 bug?
- From: Søren Peter Sieg Mørch <sp.darch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:12:46 +0100
ups i've just deleted all the non hidden folders from ~!
df -h reports that there are lots of free space on my /home/ partition.
how is the files deleted and is ther any change of restoring them?
2005/12/17, tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:24:34 +0100
> Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have recently had an unpleasant experience. I have tried to rename a
> > folder "Nirvana" to "nirvana" using emelFM2 on an external harddisk FAT
> > 32 partition. The folder disappeared instantaneously. Now, I am wondering
> > whether it is because of the FAT32 partition mounted with an UTF-8
> > charset, or whether it is a bug in emelFM2.
> >
> > I would just like to know what happened, as I think I had this folder
> > backuped on a CD. Thanks
> Yes, that's a bug. Turns out that the [g]libc function used to detect the
> presence of an existing item (i.e. an item that would need to be deleted so
> that the rename could proceed) ignores the case of name characters on FAT32
> filesystems.
>
> So I think the sequence of events would be: test for "nirvana"; "Nirvana"
> would match that; delete the latter (usually with a prior warning, did you
> see any such warning?) and then there's nothing to rename !
>
> Now to find a work-around for the invalid detection ...
>
> Thanks for the report. This is potentially a very nasty bug.
>
> Regards
> Tom
>
>
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