Subject: b18 - rm still has the ol' same dir name bug?
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14 May 1997 23:25:32 -0700
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I was rebuilding groff/man this morning, and when I went to delete 
groff with the usual rm -rf, much to my horror, dirs with a subdir 
by the same name give a warning and won't be deleted.

bash$ md a
bash$ md a/b
bash$ md a/b/b
bash$ rm -rf a
rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure.
This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system.
NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER. Cycle detected: a/b/b is the same file as
a bash$

That's basically how a couple groff dirs are set up.  You have to rm 
a/* first, then rm -rf a to get around.

Also, tar has been spewing a ton of messages about not being able to 
change access and modification times on the dirs it extracts, on my  
Win95 at least.

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