From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: interesting problem with "find"
11 Nov 1997 21:08:20 -0800
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Larry Hall <lhall AT rfk DOT com> writes:

>Bartlee A. Anderson wrote:
>>I've noticed a similar problem with rm.
>>In directories with structure something/yada/yada/other/...
>>rm -rf will tell you that you have a circular directory structure and to
>>notify your administrator, it is almost certainly corrupt.
>>You have to remove from the second yada and then once it's gone, the
>>original command will work. Yuck.
>
>The problem with rm is because the algorithm cygwin32 has for generating
>inode numbers does not guarantee unique values.  In the UNIX world, these
>values must be unique.  If they aren't, it indicates the file system is 
>corrupt.  This is why this message occurs for rm.  An explanation of this
>should be in the FAQ by now.
>
>This is NOT the same issue as the find problem.

Are you sure?  I think `find' might be confused by the non-unique inode
numbers, just as `rm' is.

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