Handle premature end of dirent buffer #45
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Would you be able to craft a unit test for this? Besides the usual reasons, I've been meaning to rework extfs a little bit since it was the first time I implemented a filesystem, ever, and I think I can do a better job in the meantime 😄 but then I want to make sure that it also handles this edge case. |
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This PR aims to solve unhandled
EOFErrorexceptions we have observed. Apparently ext4 direntries on running systems can have an empty block at the end of their buffer.