[bug #51926] -xtype l fails on symbolic links that have a loop

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #51926 (project findutils): Re: "In fact the error can occur even when you wouldn't expect it due to find's arm-swapping optimizations:" That's actually a flat-out error; you shouldn't do optimizations that cause additional exceptions. _

[bug #51841] find buffer-overflow with -printf '%T+'

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #51841 (project findutils): On 2017-09-06 Bernhard Voelker wrote: > It seems they fail here: > -l1 1990-06-22+14:00:00.00 646056000.00 [...] > +l1 1990-06-22+12:00:00.00 646056000.00 [...] > The expected output fo

[bug #51926] -xtype l fails on symbolic links that have a loop

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #51926 (project findutils): In fact the error can occur even when you wouldn't expect it due to find's arm-swapping optimizations: $ ln -s loop loop $ find -links 100 -xtype l find: ‘./loop’: Too many levels of symbolic links Even though -xtype appears guarded by the -l