From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Kukulies To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: rm -rf -> Circular directory structure Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 02:16:00 -0000 Message-id: <199708060919.LAA15850@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-SW-Source: 1997-08/msg00093.html I'm having a weird problem under NT 4.0 (I remember to have seen this with b17 and NT3.51 also): D:\>rm -rf somedir rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure. This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system. NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER. Cycle detected: somedir/FOO/FOO is the same file as somedir CHKDSK doesn't flag any errors on the filesystem and I tend to believe this isn't the cause anyway. The interesting thing is: When I remove the file somedir/FOO/FOO the rm command is able to run through without errors. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".