Bug#750842: rhash: Rhash with recursion can be trapped in a loop (created with a symlink) forever

Package: rhash Version: 1.3.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #750842 Thank you (again)! :) The upstream version works as expected, but will it be also added to a Debian repository? Regards -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990

Bug#750842: rhash: Rhash with recursion can be trapped in a loop (created with a symlink) forever

Mario, thanks for the patch! It's accepted upstream with small changes [1] ;) [1] https://github.com/rhash/RHash/commit/3d00ccb67d4a4e5b3bdc969edfc7094f46fa75e7 09.06.2014 16:48, Mario B. wrote: > Package: rhash > Version: 1.3.1-1 > Followup-For: Bug #750842 > > Dear Maintainer, > > I've added

Bug#750842: rhash: Rhash with recursion can be trapped in a loop (created with a symlink) forever

Package: rhash Version: 1.3.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #750842 Dear Maintainer, I've added a very simple patch (for UNIX systems at least), but now symlinks are ignored. I don't know if this is the best behaviour. Regards -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT prefers stable-updates AP

Bug#750842: rhash: Rhash with recursion can be trapped in a loop (created with a symlink) forever

Package: rhash Version: 1.3.1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I wanted to use rhash to compute hashes of backups of the system, but some symlinks in the system are just loops (/usr/bin/X11 -> .). Here is an example of the problem: $ mkdir dir && ln -s . dir/infinite && rhash --recursive