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Re: interesting problem with "find"


>Since Windows does not support the concept of an inode, cygwin has to
>create its own.  It bases the inode on the name of the file.  So, if you
>have two directories with the same name, they'll have the same inode.
>When rm -r sees these two (different) directories with the same inode,
>it complains.

>Currently, the only workaround is to delete the lower level subdirectories
>by hand.  Sorry.

or change the inode calculation to be based
on the full path rather than the filename.

raf

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