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Guido Berhörster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #5 from Guido Berhörster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-01-20 18:53:13 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> > Note that it is not possible to automatically detect such a "garbage", 
> > since the above filenames are perfectly valid (on most Unix filesystems 
> > filenames may contain any character except '/' and '\0').
>
> Interesting. I find it curious that a RAM fault would add files. I don't want
> to examine them for fear they are the result of a security breach.

That's nothing unusual, a few flipped bits when adding/removing directory
entries are probably enough to have arbitrary files disappear or bogus files
appear.

> Thanks again for your help. I am sorry to have wasted your time.

No problem.

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