The flaw for reading MS-DOS directories in all BSDs (including Mac OS X) tracked back to 1983 was recently fixed. SAMBA uses a special workaround in order to function properly on BSD systems. OpenBSD developers received an email from an OpenBSD user which led to unraveling the bug.
Source with quotes from <Marshall Kirk McKusick>, the original developer of the *dir() library:
<OS News - The 25 year Old BSD Bug> (May 10, 2008)
Sunday, May 11, 2008
BSD fixes 25 year old bug
Posted by SoCo at 11:10 PM
Labels: BSD, open source, programming
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