> hash.c in order to properly detect ELOOP, which must be done as part > of an unlimited-depth link following algorithm. (If we didn't have > the GNU mantra of no arbitrary limits, then we could declare ELOOP at > SYMLOOP_MAX instead.) > Brent's algorithm is universal, sets no arbitrary limit and requires no hash and is implemented in few lines at a slight cost of going through the cycle potentially up to 2 (or was it 3?) times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection#Brent.27s_algorithm it's not more difficult than setting SYMLOOP_MAX. I'm ok to implement it in gnulib, just not until the end of my exams
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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