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Re: interesting problem with "find"
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- Subject: Re: interesting problem with "find"
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:57:42 +1100 (EST)
- References: <2.2.32.19971111190941.0095dcb4@ma.ultranet.com>
Larry Hall <lhall@rfk.com> writes:
>Bartlee A. Anderson wrote:
>>I've noticed a similar problem with rm.
>>In directories with structure something/yada/yada/other/...
>>rm -rf will tell you that you have a circular directory structure and to
>>notify your administrator, it is almost certainly corrupt.
>>You have to remove from the second yada and then once it's gone, the
>>original command will work. Yuck.
>
>The problem with rm is because the algorithm cygwin32 has for generating
>inode numbers does not guarantee unique values. In the UNIX world, these
>values must be unique. If they aren't, it indicates the file system is
>corrupt. This is why this message occurs for rm. An explanation of this
>should be in the FAQ by now.
>
>This is NOT the same issue as the find problem.
Are you sure? I think `find' might be confused by the non-unique inode
numbers, just as `rm' is.
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