[ECOS] RE : [ECOS] empty filenames in JFFS2

[Vincent Catros]

Hello,

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org [mailto:ecos-discuss-
> owner@ecos.sourceware.org] De la part de Øyvind Harboe
> Envoyé : lundi 8 mars 2004 17:35
> À : Thomas Koeller
> Cc : ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> Objet : Re: [ECOS] empty filenames in JFFS2
> 
> man, 08.03.2004 kl. 11.57 skrev Thomas Koeller:
> > This happens because JFFS2 happily creates files with empty names if
> > asked to do so, I've noticed this before.
> 
> Some questions come to mind:
> 
> - Is this the intended behaviour?
> - If empty filenames are illegal, whos job is it to produce an error
> message? I.e. should the fix go into JFFS2 or eCos higher layers?

I think empty file name shouldn't be allowed because it would become
impossible to distinguish for instance "/" (root directory) and "/"
(empty filename under root directory).

As this is a general behaviour it should be fixed into "fileio" package.

Regards.

Vincent


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