Follow-up Comment #4, bug #51926 (project findutils): > 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.
Not really: $ ln -s nowhere broken $ find -xtype l ./broken That behaviour is documented here: https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Type.html As far as what to do when encountering a symbolic link loop, I think it makes sense to consider them the same as other forms of broken symbolic links. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51926> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
