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| From: | Tavian Barnes |
| Subject: | [bug #51926] -xtype l fails on symbolic links that have a loop |
| Date: | Tue, 5 Sep 2017 15:54:22 -0400 (EDT) |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36 |
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #51926 (project findutils):
> It turns out that find treats "-xtype (anything)" as false on a
broken link, which doesn't seem to be specified in the manual page. So it
would be plausible to treat it as false on a circular link as well.
Not really:
$ ln -s nowhere broken
$ find -xtype l
./broken
That behaviour is documented here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Type.html
As far as what to do when encountering a symbolic link loop, I think it makes
sense to consider them the same as other forms of broken symbolic links.
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