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Symbolic link loops detection

Posted: 2014-06-13, 19:52 UTC
by b77ng
Hi

Today, while testing some app I'm making (it needs to be really fool proof because it will run unattended for long periods of time) I noticed that while deleting some folder which had intentinally created circular symbolic link loops TC got stuck in one loop. Deleting the sym links individually worked, obviously. I know it's not something people would normally run into, but who knows.

Posted: 2014-06-16, 10:04 UTC
by ghisler(Author)
TC can auto-detect link loops, but only under one condition: The link target needs to be readable. If the link target cannot be read, but the link still can be followed, then TC cannot "know" where the link points to.