Re: Circular symlinks cause FTP mirroring mayhem

2003-12-05 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
John Burwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having trouble with wget burrowing infinitely into circular symlinks when I don't think it's supposed to be following these symlinks at all. Indeed it isn't. What does the directory listing look like?

Re: Circular symlinks cause FTP mirroring mayhem

2003-12-05 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
John Burwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lrwxrwxrwx1 40 Nov 13 16:27 ad@ - /Documents/WebServer/ads [...] drwxrwxrwx1 5610 Nov 13 16:27 beta@ You can see 'ad' pointing to 'ads' in this case, and wget behaves. However, you can see where beta is marked as a

Circular symlinks cause FTP mirroring mayhem

2003-12-04 Thread John Burwell
I'm having trouble with wget burrowing infinitely into circular symlinks when I don't think it's supposed to be following these symlinks at all. I realize that having a link inside a directory that points back to that directory is problematic for many reasons, but the fact is, it happens, and