URL:
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Summary: find does not report symlink loop when trying to
follow symlinks
Project: findutils
Submitted by: geoffclare
Submitted on: Monday 16/04/07 at 10:25
Category: find
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Wrong result
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Geoff Clare
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 4.3.3
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
This is effectively the same problem as bug 11148 (fixed long ago) but now in
the fts version of the code.
$ ln -s a b
$ ln -s b a
$ find --version
GNU find version 4.3.3
Built using GNU gnulib version 2007-04-14
Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION FTS(FTS_CWDFD)
CBO(level=0)
$ find -L a
a
It should report an error when it gets ELOOP, as with the non-fts version of
find:
$ find-4.2.28 -L a
find-4.2.28: a: Too many levels of symbolic links
The original fts code also did not have the problem. It has come in since
the last time I tried the fts version (from CVS in August 2005).
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