From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject: Re: rm -R reports "circular reference"
19 Mar 1998 13:35:27 -0800
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At 06:26 PM 3/16/98 +1100, raf wrote:
>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.
>
>>BTW.  The directory tree I tried to delete was the one created by "MS
>>Media Manager" from the MS Visual Studio 97 Enterprise Edition.
>
>is is on a FAT filesystem?
>i think filesystem corruption
>is one of its specialities :)
>
>seriously though, can't help here
>except to say your filesystem may
>be corrupt and need repair.
>
>
>raf
>

Not to be harsh but I think you are wrong.  This is, I believe, the old
non-unique inode problem in cygwin.  I expect there is little wrong with
the filesystem and allot wrong with the inode generation algorithm in 
cygwinb19.dll.  This problem manifests itself that way.


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