Re: -follow problem in 4.2.18

2005-03-15 Thread DervishD
Hi James :) * James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:13:06PM +0100, DervishD wrote: > > The less I can do for the free software I use is to make free > > software myself (and I do that) and to help development and put a bit > > of interest on it. I really l

Re: -follow problem in 4.2.18

2005-03-15 Thread James Youngman
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:13:06PM +0100, DervishD wrote: > The less I can do for the free software I use is to make free > software myself (and I do that) and to help development and put a bit > of interest on it. I really like findutils, and although I don't have > the time to follow the new

Re: -follow problem in 4.2.18

2005-03-15 Thread DervishD
Hi James :) * James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:33:00PM +0100, DervishD wrote: > > I didn't know that 4.2.19 had been released. I don't use to look > > in alpha.gnu.org O:) My fault. > alpha.gnu.org is for testing releases and other releases which for

Re: -follow problem in 4.2.18

2005-03-14 Thread James Youngman
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:33:00PM +0100, DervishD wrote: > I didn't know that 4.2.19 had been released. I don't use to look > in alpha.gnu.org O:) My fault. alpha.gnu.org is for testing releases and other releases which for one reason or another don't qualify as "stable". If there are no bu

Re: -follow problem in 4.2.18

2005-03-14 Thread DervishD
Hi James :) * James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:25:36AM +0100, DervishD wrote: > > Try this with find 4.2.18: > > > > $ ln -s /tmp example > > $ find example -follow > > find: example: Too many levels of symbolic links. > This is fixed in f

Re: -follow problem in 4.2.18

2005-03-14 Thread James Youngman
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:25:36AM +0100, DervishD wrote: > Try this with find 4.2.18: > > $ ln -s /tmp example > $ find example -follow > find: example: Too many levels of symbolic links. This is fixed in findutils-4.2.19. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-findutils/2

-follow problem in 4.2.18

2005-03-14 Thread DervishD
Hi all :) Try this with find 4.2.18: $ ln -s /tmp example $ find example -follow find: example: Too many levels of symbolic links. This problem seems to be related to the 'O_FOLLOW' flag in 'open' (open returns ELOOP). I don't know if the problem is related with my libc (