Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/03/20/14:57:32
In article <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 19980316091605 DOT 009ce100 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com>,
Larry Hall <lhall AT rfk DOT com> wrote:
>At 10:37 AM 3/14/98 -0600, 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.
>
>This occurs because of the current scheme for generating inodes. It is
>based on the file name and is therefore not completely unique. If rm
>finds 2 files with the same inode number, you will get complaints. IT
>DOES NOT MEAN THERE ARE ANY PROBLEMS WITH THE FILE SYSTEM. In UNIX
>environments, it does, but not here. If you see this, you can still
>delete the remaining files/directories via DOS or Windows commands. As
>far as I know, this problem has not been completely addressed.
The B19 scheme for generating directory inodes *is* based on the full
path name of a directory. This should no longer be a problem in B19.
Am I correct in assuming that Weiqi Gao is using B18 or is there still some
kind of bug in B19?
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