From:	banders AT ecd DOT rockwell DOT com (Bart Anderson)
Subject:	Re: rm -R reports "circular reference"
17 Mar 1998 10:07:08 -0800 :
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To:	Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

As I recall, the earliest reports were about the Inode not being unique
because of ignoring case of filenames. There was a report that this
could be resolved by using the full path name in figuring the Inode.
There was recently a post about new support for mixed case support for
b19. Check the archives.
Bart

Weiqi Gao wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I encountered an error while trying to "rm -R" a directory tree.  rm
> reports "circular reference" in the directory structure.
> 
> I seem to remember seeing such errors being discussed, but couldn't find
> the details of when such error would occur.
> 
> BTW.  The directory tree I tried to delete was the one created by "MS
> Media Manager" from the MS Visual Studio 97 Enterprise Edition.
> 
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