Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Inodes Message-ID: Date: 7 Mar 89 06:56:47 GMT Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: comp Organization: The Octagon Room Lines: 21 We have a semi-weird situation on situation in our devlopment directory here which is causing a bit of a problem and I unfortunately do not know enough about inodes to figure it out (some, but not enough). As usual, I am counting on net.help for a solution. :-) The situation is this: /develop has four subdirectories names consult1.[1|2|3|4]. consult1.1 and .3 both are fine, but consult1.2 and .4 have a problem with ..: getwd() can't open it, which breaks a lot of things that normally would happen in a directory tree, from a simple pwd to trying to compile with -g. Now, I know why those things break so please don't explain it. The problem is what the heck is wrong with /develop/consult1.[2|4]/..? The inode number appears consistent (shares the inum of .) and the number of links are correct. Additionally, fsck didn't turn up anything; it things the whole system is just ducky. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help. Dave -- tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@rpitsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edu