From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	Re: rm -R reports "circular reference"
19 Mar 1998 08:10:27 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<199803172356.PAA31482.cygnus.gnu-win32@skaro.cygnus.com>
References:	<350AB233 DOT 87B89052 AT a DOT crl DOT com>
To:	weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com (Weiqi Gao)
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Weiqi Gao wrote:
> 
> I encountered an error while trying to "rm -R" a directory tree.  rm
> reports "circular reference" in the directory structure.

If you are still using b18, that's a known bug that should be fixed in
b19.  The only problem I know about with inodes in b19 is that the inode
returned from d_ino is not equal to the inode returned from stat().
I don't think this should produce a circular reference problem though.

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Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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