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Re: Possible bug in readlink, canonicalize fails.
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Possible bug in readlink, canonicalize fails. |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:56:21 +0200 |
mpb <address@hidden> wrote:
> I believe the following script demonstrates that readlink cannot
> always canonicalize paths. It may be possible to create a simpler
> demonstration of the bug, but I could not trivially do so.
Thanks for the report and the nice test case.
I have code that's a work in progress (needed in another part
of coreutils) that does a better job of detecting such (non)cycles.
This will be fixed before 6.10.