Follow-up Comment #1, bug #66374 (group findutils): Hi. I'm fairly sure that it's not attempting to read the symlink target. But rather, the -xtype predicate is attempting to follow the symlink in order to obtain the type of the target. That's not the same thing as reading the target. The -xtype predicate needs to stat the target, not read it. In other words, it needs to read the target's inode, not its contents, but because of the permissions of demo, it can't locate the inode. Hence the error message about permissions.
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