Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 15:14:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav AT video DOT yars DOT free DOT net>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: v2 + rm -r


On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:

> That was simpler than I thought: in djgpp the structure dirent does
> not have member d_ino and thus RM just use 1 as inode for each file.
> So this is a bug in *fileutils*. They could at least not to check for cycles
> if dirent does not have d_ino, or use stat to get it.

Thank you.  A large stone just fell off my heart.  Please report this bug 
to bug-gnu-utils AT prep DOT ai DOT mit DOT edu.  I believe that struct dirent as 
implemented in DJGPP is what POSIX requires, so it seems like Fileutils 
expect more than POSIX compliance.