: the listing will show two "aaaaaaaaaaaaaa"s!!! Then the fresh : "aaaaaaaaaaaaaa" will be recognized for the following 'cp', 'mv', : or 'ln', but is tarnished by that operation again.. I have : reason to believe the "No such file or directory" is returned by : namei() which is called in sys_stat() in ~elks/fs/stat.c, but : that's as far as I've gotten.. : I'm new at this, so my bug squashing is proceeding very slowly.. : If nobody is interested, no problem, I'll eventually figure it : out anyway so don't waste your time. I just thought you guys know : alot more and might know instantly what is the problem. I apologize : if it's a known or unworthy problem. : : I have notes for the experiments I tried if anyone wants : them. There are alot, and many are garbled by printk() output. : Keep going! This kind of work is greatly appreciated! It sounds like you're near a breakthrough. I think the problem may lie in the fact that the fileames *aren't* NUL terminated,and that strncmp may need to be used, or the memcpy_fromfs changed to get the user-name level filename. Greg