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Am 13.01.2010 16:18, schrieb Henson, George A CTR USA MEDCOM JMLFDC:

> A very deep directory tree called conftest3
> (conftest3/conftest3/conftest3/...)
> The source for conftest (conftest.c - attached)
> Compiled binary contest.exe
> 
> In Cygwin attempting to cd to the bottom of the conftest3 directory tree
> will yield a BSOD. Running conftest.exe will yield a BSOD. A little
> experimentation with conftest.c shows the error happens during the
> creation of the directory tree. The Windows native tools are unable to
> correctly manage the conftest3 tree (I cannot remove it or descend to
> the bottom)
> 
> The only information I have been able to get out of the Windows crash
> dumps is the fault happens somewhere in the ntfs.sys driver.

Might this be simple filesystem corruption?
If so, chkdsk might be your friend - give it a spin.

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