Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:00:08 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: inode problem in `rm'
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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <AndrewCottrell AT swiftdsl DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:53:26 +1000
> 
> 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.

Yes, this is the same message I see.

It sounds like "." is not resolved by `stat' and its subroutines to
the same normalized file name as "contrib/alfont/freetype".  Debugging
print-outs from xstat.c could show what file names are passed to the
inode-inventing code.