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From: pcg@rupert.cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: ENORMOUS pathname
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Date: 5 Feb 90 19:45:46 GMT
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In-reply-to: stefan@spcc386.UUCP's message of 2 Feb 90 13:09:58 GMT

In article <350@spcc386.UUCP> stefan@spcc386.UUCP (Stefan Posthuma) writes:

   A directory-handling program went berzerk and now I have this path with
   about two hundred directories in there. I have tried but there seems to be
   no way to get rid of it. The shell breaks when I go deep enough, rm -r goofs
   up, fsck fails, rmdir crashes and so on.
   I am running SCO Xenix 386 2.3.1

   Bright ideas anyone?

Fairly easy... move everything else our of that directory, or
move the first part of the crazy pathname into its own directory,
and then use fsdb and ZAP THE INODE (keep zapping inodes...).
Ignore fsck's attempts to rescue the directory then.

Or use ftw(3) with a routine that does an unlink(2) from the
bottom up.
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