Follow-up Comment #2, bug #19605 (project findutils):
Thinking about this again, I am less convinced this is a bug. AIUI find is
required to diagnose directory loops. The standard says:
The find utility shall detect infinite loops; that is, entering a
previously visited directory that is an
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
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
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #19605 (project findutils):
On second thoughts, d_type is a red herring. With the -L option, d_type
doesn't provide enough information for symlinks - find needs to know what
type of file the symlink points to (in order to tell whether the symlink
points to a directory
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #19605 (project findutils):
Ouch. Fixed by the attached patch. The patch also fixes a problem with
the test suite (not detecting some cases whetre a test should fail) and a
problem in oldfind which relates to using out-of-date stat information.
I have not yet
