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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 04:56:24PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
>Am 13.01.2010 16:18, schrieb Henson, George A CTR USA MEDCOM JMLFDC:
>> A very deep directory tree called conftest3
>> (conftest3/conftest3/conftest3/...)
>> The source for conftest (conftest.c - attached)
>> Compiled binary contest.exe
>> 
>> In Cygwin attempting to cd to the bottom of the conftest3 directory tree
>> will yield a BSOD. Running conftest.exe will yield a BSOD. A little
>> experimentation with conftest.c shows the error happens during the
>> creation of the directory tree. The Windows native tools are unable to
>> correctly manage the conftest3 tree (I cannot remove it or descend to
>> the bottom)
>> 
>> The only information I have been able to get out of the Windows crash
>> dumps is the fault happens somewhere in the ntfs.sys driver.
>
>Might this be simple filesystem corruption?
>If so, chkdsk might be your friend - give it a spin.

I think we need a BSOD FAQ entry.  Anyone want to write one?

cgf

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