Hi JMarc,
> It seems that the thing to do is to keep track of visited directories, like
> here for example:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36977259/avoiding-infinite-recursion-with-os-walk
Good point. These will be my first lines of Python-code, but I’ll try. I tested
this with an artificial symlink cycle and it worked:
--- lyxgit/lib/scripts/TeXFiles.py 2019-06-06 19:10:58.000000000 +0200
+++ lyxgit/lib/scripts/TeXFiles.py 2019-06-06 18:59:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -116,7 +116,17 @@
if not os.path.isdir(dir):
continue
# walk down the file hierarchy
- for root,path,files in os.walk(dir):
+ visited = set()
+ for root,dirs,files in os.walk(dir, followlinks=True):
+ # prevent inifinite recursion
+ recurse = []
+ for dir in dirs:
+ st = os.stat(os.path.join(root, dir))
+ key = st.st_dev, st.st_ino
+ if key not in visited:
+ visited.add(key)
+ recurse.append(dir)
+ dirs[:] = recurse
# check file type
for file in files:
if len(file) > 4 and file[-4:] == file_ext:
Regards,
Michael
