Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/03/19/07:24:06
If I recall correctly, it works like this. There is no real inode number.
Thus, to simulate one, gnu-win32 uses the name of the dir (not full path,
just that dir). Thus, if you have the following directory structure:
/somedir/xxx/yyy/xxx/zzz
There will be a problem if you are in /somedir and try to do a rm -r. When
it finds xxx in xxx, it thinks they are the same dir. Thus, you would have to:
cd /somedir/xxx/yyy
rm -r xxx
cd /somedir
rm -r xxx
Hope this helps,
Robert Seeger
PS: You could just remove the dir structure from windows. It's what I
always wind up doing, since it's easier.
At 06:26 PM 3/16/98 +1100, raf wrote:
>Weiqi Gao wrote:
>>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.
>
>is is on a FAT filesystem?
>i think filesystem corruption
>is one of its specialities :)
>
>seriously though, can't help here
>except to say your filesystem may
>be corrupt and need repair.
>
>
>raf
>
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