find.exe truncating search on <foo>/<foo>

[Sergey Okhapkin]

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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Moscow, Russia
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