Follow-up Comment #3, bug #19605 (project findutils):
You are confusing directory loops and symlink loops, which are completely
different things. In a directory loop, a symlink points up to a parent
directory of the symlink. A stat() of the symlink succeeds. In a symlink
loop the symlink ends up (possibly through other symlinks) pointing to
itself. A stat() of the symlink fails with ELOOP. The POSIX requirements
relating to detection of directory loops have no bearing on this problem,
which is about symlink loops.
It's interesting that adding -size produces the desired result, but it
shouldn't make any difference. With -L (or -H), find needs to stat() each
path operand in order to tell whether it resolves to a directory that it
should descend into.
You had your doubts about bug 11148 as well, but in the end you decided to
make the change I requested.
The current versions of AIX, HP-UX and Solaris all report the expected error,
the same as findutils 4.2.28 does. I can see no justification for making
4.3.3 behave differently.
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