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Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/10/02/19:49:39

From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: Re: B19: WinNT _stat()/_stat_worker() return bogus st_ino
2 Oct 1998 19:49:39 GMT :
Message-ID: <6v3aoj$dpc$1@cronkite.cygnus.com>
References: <361002D5 DOT 68716A01 AT kd1 DOT com> <36138FA7 DOT 1A018084 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT sics DOT se>
X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998)

In article <36138FA7 DOT 1A018084 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT sics DOT se>,
Olle Olsson <olleo AT sics DOT se> wrote:
>This explains the defective behavior when using find in situations like the following:
>
>dirMAJOR/
>    dirXXX/         a full directory tree
>    dirXXX.old    the "isomorphic" directory tree with older versions of the same files
>
>Here it is guaranteed that if "find dirMAJOR -name 'foo*' " is performed, then
>directories with the same name will
>appear  several times. Which is really dangerous if you rely upon "find" to
>find *all* the relevant files.
>
>So this bug needs to be fixed.

It should be fixed in recent coolviews and in B20 when it is released.
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