Author: Unknown
Subject: Symbolic Links
Date: Wednesday, 09 Sep 2020, 12:18:34

When finding loops in symbolic links,

what is the inode number referring to?

Is that the the inode of the "target file" that the symbolic link is pointing to, or is it of the "pointer file" that has a symbolic link going to a target file or something else? 

After we find a symbolic link loop, do we need to store the inode number again? Or should we only store the inodes of files that don't create a symbolic loop.