On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:04:11AM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > Also, I find it a bit unfortunate that a simple `ls' triggers this > > already: > > > > wj@hurd:~/unionfs$ settrans -ac foo unionfs .. / > > wj@hurd:~/unionfs$ ls foo/unionfs/ > > ls: foo/unionfs/foo: Too many levels of symbolic links > > Of course; that is exactly the problem we were speaking about on IRC. > If you would be allowed to lookup foo/unionfs/foo, this would lead to > endless recursion - wouldn't be so nice for e.g. the locatedb-find > process.
Still, I find it a bit unfortunate that a simple `ls' triggers this already. ;-) How about giving it the appearance of an empty directory instead? Then dired mode and `ls -l' etc. would not fail when looking at the parent directory of the node in question; I don't think it would cause any harm. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
