X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <454D1050.4080807@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:12:32 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: loop message warning in find for apparent non-looped files References: <454BABC4 DOT 7080806 AT tlinx DOT org> In-Reply-To: <454BABC4.7080806@tlinx.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Linda Walsh wrote: > I was doing a find of my root NTFS dir along the lines of : > find / -xdev -size +1G > > It outputs an error: > find: Filesystem loop detected; > `/Home/law/Documents/Microsoft/win/registry2/reg > tweaks/KXP_Tweaks/www.gabrieleponti.com/images' is part of the same > filesystem > loop as > `/Home/law/Documents/Microsoft/win/registry2/regtweaks/KXP_Tweaks/www.gab > rieleponti.com/images'. > > This is the only error message with the command finishing to completion. > The filesystem has over 400,000 files, and almost 27,000 directories. > > Why would this one file come up with what seems to be an obvious error > message? > It appears find is complaining that the same file is part of the same > loop -- > which it is, but that shouldn't be an error since they are they same > file in > the same path. > > Am I missing something obvious? Hard to tell but assuming that what you've posted is exactly the same as what you were told, the differences in line breaks could be significant. You may want to look at that. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/