Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Nov 29, 2018 18:34 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by zdzichu
Parent article: Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Well, that's easy enough to fix – verify that the xattr matches the filename before using it.

A non-malicious source of the same problem is somebody renaming the file with an old non-extended-filename-compatible tool (or libc).