From: "Andrew Cottrell" <AndrewCottrell AT swiftdsl DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: RE: inode problem in `rm'
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:53:26 +1000
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> I'm not sure what incarnation of the ported Fileutils I'm 
> using, but I think it's from alpha 1.  "ident rm.exe" reports 
> the following:
> 
>      $Id: stub.asm built 2003-04-25 16:01:12 by djasm $
>      $Id: DJGPP libc built Apr 25 2003 16:04:32 by gcc 3.2.2 $
> 
> If there's a better version, please tell me where to get it.
This version should have the fix in it that I was thinking of, but I think
this is a new bug.

When trying to reproduce this one make sure that the directory structure is
a bit complex and it will show up. 

I copied my contrib & manifest directories to another drive and tried the
following:-
	E:\dj204>rm -rf contrib manifest

With the following results:-
DJ204 E:\dj204>rm -rf contrib manifest
rm: ERROR: the directory `contrib/alfont/freetype' initially had
device/inode
numbers 4/268435467, but now (after a chdir into it), the numbers for `.'
are 4/268435468.  That means that while rm was running, the directory
was replaced with either another directory or a link to another directory.

The following are the results from Richard's coreutils 5.0 (FSF & Richards
patch):-
DJ204 E:\dj204>rm -rf contrib manifest
rm: `contrib/alfont/freetype/builds/amiga' changed dev/ino

Regards,
Andrew