From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: interesting problem with "find"
12 Nov 1997 04:12:38 -0800
Message-ID: <199711121134.DAA27188.cygnus.gnu-win32@rtl.cygnus.com>
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To: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Cc: banders AT ECD DOT Rockwell DOT COM, JONCKHEERE AT d0tng DOT fnal DOT gov, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Larry Hall wrote:
[...]
> The problem with rm is because the algorithm cygwin32 has for generating
> inode numbers does not guarantee unique values.  In the UNIX world, these
> values must be unique.  If they aren't, it indicates the file system is 
> corrupt.  This is why this message occurs for rm.  An explanation of this
> should be in the FAQ by now.
[...]

Added it.  Fixing the inode spoofing is definitely on my list of things
to fix...

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Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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