Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:26:18 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange filesystem problems Message-ID: <AANLkTimKUGtBJ_L6mL82lMsyslOTXSIuCF3KcoXNaWMf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C46BBCE.2080601@netfence.it> References: <4C46BBCE.2080601@netfence.it>
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On 21 July 2010 05:20, Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote: > Hello. > > I'm experiencing a strange problem on a 7.2p8/i386 box. > This is not critical, since I have a workaround, but it's annoying and I'm > also curious :-) > > Let's say I have directory "foo"; under "foo" I have "bar" which keeps > thousands of files (in several subdirectories). > > I do: > > %cd /xyzzy/foo > %pwd > xyzzy/foo > %rm -fR bar > %pwd > pwd: .: Permission denied > %cd .. > %cd foo > %pwd > xyzzy/foo > > This is a local UFS filesystem, so it shouldn't be a network problem; no > error shows up in the logs; in "bar" I don't have any symlink or special > node, only plain files and directories. > > What should I check? > I note that /bin/[t]csh uses the external /bin/pwd whereas /bin/sh has it as a builtin. I know (virtu- ally) nothing about bash nor zsh. I would, in any case, suspect the shell, and try at least one other variation. I can't replicate your behaviour here. -- --
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