On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:34:02PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote:
> > > This is a very naive question, I know. But are links fully 'transitive'?
> > >
> >
> > Huh ?  I'm only familiar with transitive and intransitive *verbs*
> > (the first take an object).  Google found something about the
> > "semantic web" - might as well be gibberish as far as I'm concerned.
> >
> 
> Sorry. Was trying to ask whether a symlink to a symlink to a thing was okay
> (that is, do symlinks 'chain'). I couldn't think of a reason why not, but I
> was grasping at whatever I could ...

There is a limit (in the kernel), I think it is to stop infinite
loops when admins screw up.  But the limit is > 2.
> 
> Here is what I have, which unless I'm mistaken matches what Bruce had ...
> though my libbz2.so.1.0.6 is larger.
> 
> root:/sources# ls -l /usr/lib/libbz2.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 18 09:51 /usr/lib/libbz2.so ->
> ../../lib/libbz2.so.1.0
> 
> root:/sources# ls -l /lib/libbz2.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 Mar 18 09:50 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 ->
> libbz2.so.1.0.6
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 237896 Mar 18 09:50 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.6

I guess you are on x86_64 - mine is not exactly the same size as
yours, but not very different.  Looks reasonable.

Let's take a step back - your initial problem was with bunzip2.
What do the folowing report (and don't expect a reply from me, I'll
probably have gone to bed!) ?

type -pa bunzip2
(just simulating bunzip2)

ldd `type -pa bunzip2`

ĸen
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