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From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200212192013.gBJKDm125557@brother.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: Bugs in __solve_symlinks
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:13:48 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <3E01FB3D.E1C12791@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> from "Richard Dawe" at Dec 19, 2002 05:00:45 PM
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According to Richard Dawe:
> * It doesn't cope with symlinks that point to themselves. For instance:
> 
>     ln -s a a
> 
> Try to stat the file 'a'. It fails with ELOOP, but it should return
> information about the file 'a'.

Are you sure?


Right,

						MartinS

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