Follow-up Comment #4, bug #19605 (project findutils):
But find does nto need to stat() a directory entry in order to discover that
the entry itself is not a directory. Using -size causes the loop tobe
diagnosed, because that requries a call to stat(). Determining that an item
is not a directory requires no stat call because that information is present
in struct dirent (on some systems at least).
As far as I can see, the output that find produces on stdout is correct and
matches the criteria passed to find by the user in this case.
I believe that the current behaviour is standard-conforming unless find is
required to diagnose all symlink loops (even for nondirectories). I am not
aware of any such requirement.
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