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Re: interesting problem with "find"
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: interesting problem with "find"
- From: raf at comdyn dot com dot au (raf)
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:45:27 +1100
>Since Windows does not support the concept of an inode, cygwin has to
>create its own. It bases the inode on the name of the file. So, if you
>have two directories with the same name, they'll have the same inode.
>When rm -r sees these two (different) directories with the same inode,
>it complains.
>Currently, the only workaround is to delete the lower level subdirectories
>by hand. Sorry.
or change the inode calculation to be based
on the full path rather than the filename.
raf
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