> And lo, Colin Plumb saith unto me:
> > > [2.1.49] displays a "(deleted)" after the filename if the file is deleted
> > I was thinking that there are two ambiguities in there:
> > First, what if a directory is deleted, not the file.
> > Second, do you want the name to be uniquely parseable?
> > /foo//bar//baz
> This is legal syntax for /foo/bar/baz, as is /foo///////////bar/baz.
>
> Maybe if the deleted parts blinked?
>
> Keith (grinning, ducking, running...)
>
Legal syntax would be good here. It should be legal, it should not however
usually occur.. When does the kernel report names like /foo/bar//baz? If
it doesn't then that would be an acceptiable way of marking them.. And if
you modified ls then you could even make them blink.. (or have the
word (deleted) appear..)..