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RE: find.exe truncating search on <foo>/<foo>
- To: "Jon_Witort at geoworks dot com" <Jon_Witort at geoworks dot com>, "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: find.exe truncating search on <foo>/<foo>
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 09:57:49 +0400
- Cc: "'Geoffrey Noer'" <noer at cygnus dot com>
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Michael A. Chase wrote:
> This might be deeper than just the find command. When I tried to delete
a
> directory tree with rm -r, it aborted when it came across subdirectories
> with the same name as one of their ancestors (e.g., perl5/lib/perl5).
I'm
> using the b18 binaries I downloaded from Cygnus.
Rm uses inode numbers to manipulate with files. Cygwin.dll emulates inode
numbers as a relative filename hash. Geoffrey, the hash function must use
the full filename!
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.
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