Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] -MaxDepth Default Argument
Date: Wednesday, 02 Sep 2020, 08:42:09

    > Message Posted By: Anonymous
    >
    > I believe there is a limit to how much -maxdepth can be so should we be
    > keeping track of it regardless of whether it is a command-line argument or
    > not? Is there a default maximum number of subdirectories the program can
    > visit?

Yes, there is a limit to how deep a tree walk can reach,
even if no -maxdepth is specified on the command line.

In particular, because fiend detects loops involving
symbolic' links, no tree walk can visit any directory
more than once, and the number of files on a file system
is limited.

--Stan-