On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Eric Blake <e...@byu.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Jim Meyering on 1/11/2009 3:06 PM: >> I tried your "find -L dir-containing-loop" example >> on ext3, tmpfs, and xfs, and it appears d_type is always DT_LNK, > > Is there any file system on Linux where you can always get DT_UNKNOWN? If > not, I'll keep playing with it on the cygwin side of things.
Some types of files in AFS can permanently give that result, I understand, due to the slightly different nature of permissions in AFS. James.
