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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 14:47:34 +0100
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Subject: Re: git fsck complains about error:
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From: Dan Shelton via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 at 14:40, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Feb  2 13:24, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > I'm not sure whether the Cygwin code is correct. I did a peek with a
> > kernel debugger, and I see that FILE_RENAME_INFORMATION.RootDirectory
> > is always NULL if a file gets renamed to .cyg000000000xxxx. But if I
> > try that with NTFS or SMB, the NtSetInformationFile() to set
> > FileRenameInformation always fails.
>
> Your testcase is incorrect, unfortunately.
>
> >     fri->FileNameLength = (wcslen(dstfile)+1)*sizeof(wchar_t);
>
> For NT file paths, never count the trailing \0 to the length:
>
>       fri->FileNameLength = wcslen(dstfile) * sizeof (WCHAR);
>
> With that, your testcase works fine for me.
>
> On which filesystem did you see the problem?

Windows NFSv3 client (the builtin one, not the newer NFSv4.1 one).

Dan
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