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Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] t11 test case
Date: Tuesday, 15 Sep 2020, 09:00:03


    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > Could you explain why the file "TESTS/Root/uniform/victor" is not printed
    > in the second part of t11 test case for looping. I get that
    > Test/Root/uniform/victor leads to a symbolic loop so does that we have to
    > figure out whether a file leads to a symbolic loop before printing it out
    > to stdout?

Root/uniform/victor is a symbolic link to Root/uniform.

Thus under the -L flag, where symbolic links are followed,
Root/uniform/victor is the same file as Root/uniform and
is not printed.

--Stan-
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