Michael McTails <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I built coreutils with a native GCC compiler on the NSLU2 which is an > armv5b device. I keep getting circular directory structure even though > the filesystem is fine. Here the error messages exactly, and any info > I think is useful: > > DATABANK:/opt/src root# ls > bash-3.0 coreutil.tar coreutils-5.2.1 test > DATABANK:/opt/src root# rm -r test/ > rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure. > This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system. > NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER. > The following directory is part of the cycle: > `test//../../../../../../../..'
Thanks for the report. Be careful. Could this be due to a compiler bug? GNU rm should never traverse `..' links, but the directory name in the diagnostic above makes it look like rm did exactly that, several times. If that is the case, then the code to detect whether a file is named `..' or `.' is being miscompiled. Look at the function named readdir_ignoring_dot_and_dotdot. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
