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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, Ivan <ivg@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] howto: recursively iterate over filesystem
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:28:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20CFEFA262D94DDC9BA142A3912A3131@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120703120445.GA19608@cooper-siegel.org>



Le mardi, 3 juillet 2012 à 14:04, Eric Cooper a écrit :

> Note that this won't terminate when there are symbolic links that
> create cycles.


At least on my system (osx) it does terminate by raising Sys_error with "Too many levels of symbolic links".

Best,

Daniel  

P.S. The code I posted handles and hides this exception.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-03 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-03  3:30 Ivan
2012-07-03  3:42 ` Rudi Grinberg
2012-07-03  6:19 ` Stéphane Glondu
2012-07-03  8:21   ` Ivan
2012-07-03  8:24     ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-07-03  8:33       ` Ivan
2012-07-03  8:45         ` Adrien
2012-07-03  8:46       ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2012-07-03  9:25         ` Ivan
2012-07-03 12:04           ` Eric Cooper
2012-07-03 12:28             ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2012-07-03 19:50     ` [Caml-list] " Sylvain Le Gall
2012-07-03 12:14 ` [Caml-list] " Daniel Bünzli

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