mpb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # Create 3 symbolic links inside those directories. > ln -s a1/a2 /tmp/a0/a2 > ln -s /tmp/a0/a2/b3 /tmp/c0/b3 > ln -s /tmp/a0/a2/a3/a4/a5 /tmp/c0/b3/b4/a5
The problem is that we are crossing the /tmp/a0/a2 symlink twice, so canonicalize_filename_mode thinks this is a loop. But in fact the reference comes from different symlink expansions, and the second one uses a different way through the filesystem. Due to the way cycle_check works this testcase only works when the offending symlink is the second, fourth, eighth, ... one encountered. The kernel can cope because it only errors out after a fixed number of symlink expansions, independent of the actual nodes crossed. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
