From: kunglao@prairienet.org Subject: b18 - rm still has the ol' same dir name bug? 14 May 1997 23:25:32 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199705142053.PAA27879.cygnus.gnu-win32@bluestem.prairienet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com I was rebuilding groff/man this morning, and when I went to delete groff with the usual rm -rf, much to my horror, dirs with a subdir by the same name give a warning and won't be deleted. bash$ md a bash$ md a/b bash$ md a/b/b bash$ rm -rf a rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure. This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system. NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER. Cycle detected: a/b/b is the same file as a bash$ That's basically how a couple groff dirs are set up. You have to rm a/* first, then rm -rf a to get around. Also, tar has been spewing a ton of messages about not being able to change access and modification times on the dirs it extracts, on my Win95 at least. --- "Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say 'Ni!' at will to old ladies. There is a pestulance upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress of this period of history." -- Roger the Shrubber - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".