From: dwills@earthling.net (Dean C Wills) Subject: Re: rm -R reports "circular reference" 17 Mar 1998 17:21:12 -0800 Message-ID: <01bd50f6$1ee457e0$871443a4.cygnus.gnu-win32@Ariel.adm.cyrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: I would run scandisk to make sure it is not a real error first. You might really have a circular reference. See if deltree(win95 command) deletes the directory. -----Original Message----- From: Weiqi Gao To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Date: Sunday, March 15, 1998 4:47 PM Subject: rm -R reports "circular reference" >Hi, > >I encountered an error while trying to "rm -R" a directory tree. rm >reports "circular reference" in the directory structure. > >I seem to remember seeing such errors being discussed, but couldn't find >the details of when such error would occur. > >BTW. The directory tree I tried to delete was the one created by "MS >Media Manager" from the MS Visual Studio 97 Enterprise Edition. > >-- >Weiqi Gao >weiqigao@a.crl.com >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".