From:	kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE (Christoph Kukulies)
Subject:	rm -rf -> Circular directory structure
6 Aug 1997 02:55:53 -0700 :
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I'm having a weird problem under NT 4.0 (I remember to
have seen this with b17 and NT3.51 also):

D:\>rm -rf somedir
rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure.
This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system.
NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER.
Cycle detected:
somedir/FOO/FOO
is the same file as
somedir

CHKDSK doesn't flag any errors on the filesystem and I tend to believe
this isn't the cause anyway.

The interesting thing is: When I remove the file somedir/FOO/FOO
the rm command is able to run through without errors.


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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
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