From: chs@nando.net (Chip Salzenberg)
To: hari@sybase.com (Hariharan Dhandapani)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: ** bug?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:02:20 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9509191902.AA13628@nando.net.nando.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9509191820.AA01104@mach2.sybgate.sybase.com> from "Hariharan Dhandapani" at Sep 19, 95 11:20:20 am
According to Hariharan Dhandapani:
> Thanks for all your responses, "***" does work and does what i want it
> to do, however what is the rationale behind differenitating symbolic
> links, why doesn't "**" itself follow symbolic links too ...
Following symlinks is a dangerous policy. You'll note that "find"
and similar commands usually don't follow symlinks unless they're told
to. Consider:
$ mkdir infinite
$ cd infinite
$ ln -s .. loop
Now if you follow symlinks, you have infinite/loop/infinite/loop/...
--
Chip Salzenberg, aka <chs@nando.net>
"Hey, it's the Miss Alternate Universe Pageant!"
-- Crow T. Robot, MST3K: "Stranded In Space"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1995-09-19 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-09-19 3:20 Hariharan Dhandapani
1995-09-19 19:02 ` Chip Salzenberg [this message]
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1995-09-18 11:09 Hariharan Dhandapani
1995-09-19 4:35 ` Mark Borges
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