From: "Andrew Cottrell" <AndrewCottrell AT swiftdsl DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: "Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: RE: Program to stat . before and after a chdir
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 10:21:49 +1000
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> Could someone try the following program on Windows 2000/XP 
> and post the results, please? I'm wondering if our stat is 
> totally broken on Windows 2000/XP with respect to reporting 
> inode numbers.
> 
> If this program doesn't PASS, then I don't see how we can 
> expect fileutils's rm to function correctly.
> 
> I'm trying to understand the inode messages on Windows 
> 2000/XP. I don't have either OS, so I can't try to reproduce 
> it. I've never seen that error on my Windows '98 SE box.
My results pass. I am using XP SP1 with all MS patches (as of last night).

Here are the results:-

DJ204 D:\dj204\test\inode>inode
PASS

DJ204 D:\dj204\contrib>..\test\inode\inode
PASS


As I spotted the last weekend a simple directory tree works fine, but a
complex direcory tree traversal fails when performing a rm -rf. I suspect
that the example may not show the problem up, but if you traverse the gnu or
contrib directories (if you have some contrib programs installed) then the
stat . could possible show up.


Andrew