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According to Christopher Faylor on 12/30/2008 12:06 PM:
> This is apparently caused by a symlink that looks like this:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 cgf None       6 Jul  9  2005 n -> //none
> 
> I don't remember creating that symlink.  Apparently I was checking on
> creating symlinks to nonexistent domains back in 2005.
> 
> I don't know if this is a find bug or a cygwin bug.  I could see it
> being either or both.

To some degree, it is a cygwin bug, when "n" points to "//nowhere".  If
stat("n",&st) were to fail with the standardized ENOENT, rather than the
cygwin-specific ENOSHARE, then fts_read would have set fts_info to
FTS_SLNONE (a dangling symlink) rather than FTS_NS (stat failed, possibly
from ELOOP).

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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