From: sab AT seanet DOT com (Scott Blachowicz)
Subject: RE: rm -R reports "circular reference"
19 Mar 1998 20:47:58 -0800
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To: <owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>, "Dean C Wills" <dwills AT earthling DOT net>,
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> I would run scandisk to make sure it is not a real error first. You might
> really have a circular reference. See if deltree(win95 command) deletes
the
> directory.

I'd bet that it isn't really an error - I would imagine that rm is tracking
circularity by tracking which inode/device numbers it has seen before.
Since Windows doesn't have inode numbers, they have to be faked and I think
previous discussions have pointed out that the faking is imperfect (i.e. it
sometimes spits out duplicate inode numbers).

Or something like that...your mileage may vary...:-)

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Scott Blachowicz
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