Inodes

[David C Lawrence]

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
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