B19: WinNT _stat()/_stat_worker() return bogus st_ino

Christopher G. Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Fri Oct 2 23:57:00 GMT 1998


In article <36138FA7.1A018084.cygnus.gnu-win32@sics.se>,
Olle Olsson <olleo@sics.se> wrote:
>This explains the defective behavior when using find in situations like the following:
>
>dirMAJOR/
>    dirXXX/         a full directory tree
>    dirXXX.old    the "isomorphic" directory tree with older versions of the same files
>
>Here it is guaranteed that if "find dirMAJOR -name 'foo*' " is performed, then
>directories with the same name will
>appear  several times. Which is really dangerous if you rely upon "find" to
>find *all* the relevant files.
>
>So this bug needs to be fixed.

It should be fixed in recent coolviews and in B20 when it is released.
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