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Summary: -xtype l fails on symbolic links that have a loop
Project: findutils
Submitted by: jay
Submitted on: Sun 03 Sep 2017 12:35:20 PM UTC
Category: find
Severity: 4 - Important
Item Group: Wrong result
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: jay
Originator Name: Yorick
Originator Email: org.gnu.bug-coreut...@pooryorick.com
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: None
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
find should not fail on any situation normally found in a file system, except
in cases where it cannot recover safely (e.g. someone it attempting to exploit
a file system race condition, perhaps).
Having a loop of symbolic links is "broken" in some sense, but this should not
cause find to fail. Unfortunately, if -xtype is used, fid _does_ fail:
/tmp/test$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 james james 1 Sep 3 13:14 a -> a
-rw-r--r-- 1 james james 0 Sep 3 13:15 b
-rw-r--r-- 1 james james 0 Sep 3 13:15 c
-rw-r--r-- 1 james james 0 Sep 3 13:15 d
-rw-r--r-- 1 james james 0 Sep 3 13:15 e
-rw-r--r-- 1 james james 0 Sep 3 13:15 f
/tmp/test$ find . -xtype l -ls
find: ‘./a’: Too many levels of symbolic links
/tmp/test$ echo $?
1
The original bug report is GNU *debbugs) bug 28079:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28079
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