Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
MinGW always returns ST_INO = 0, which is POSIX incompatible.
Yes, this is a known deficiency in MinGW that is documented in Gnulib, here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/sys_002fstat_002eh.html
(search for "st_ino").
When we discovered this deficiency years ago, we decided that it'd be too much
of a pain to work around it then. Please see the thread starting here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-09/msg00252.html
in which a patch was installed that tries to work around some of the MinGW
deficiency; unfortunately the patch broke a lot of things and was backed out.
I'm not optimistic about a fix this time either.
The deficiency should be fixed in MinGW, so that functions like 'stat' behave as
programs expect. In the meantime, I suggest not using recursive grep in MinGW.
