From: sab@seanet.com (Scott Blachowicz) Subject: RE: rm -R reports "circular reference" 19 Mar 1998 20:47:58 -0800 Message-ID: <199803180421.UAA07107.cygnus.gnu-win32@two.sabami.seaslug.org> References: <01bd50f6$1ee457e0$871443a4@Ariel.adm.cyrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: , "Dean C Wills" , > 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. I'd bet that it isn't really an error - I would imagine that rm is tracking circularity by tracking which inode/device numbers it has seen before. Since Windows doesn't have inode numbers, they have to be faked and I think previous discussions have pointed out that the faking is imperfect (i.e. it sometimes spits out duplicate inode numbers). Or something like that...your mileage may vary...:-) -- Scott Blachowicz sab@seanet.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".