Follow-up Comment #3, bug #51926 (project findutils): The complexity is that "-xtype" isn't really defined for a looping link, because xtype is a test of *the thing at the end of the chain of links* (which doesn't exist).
Actually, there's a similar problem with an ordinary broken link (which doesn't point to anything). It turns out that find treats "-xtype (anything)" as false on a broken link, which doesn't seem to be specified in the manual page. So it would be plausible to treat it as false on a circular link as well. There may be an upward-compatibility problem that some users are expecting to get the "Too many levels of symbolic links" message. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51926> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/