Author: Unknown
Subject: Symlink Clarification
Date: Thursday, 17 Sep 2020, 03:50:51
In response to this: > When I run the staff solution in a directory containing a symbolic link > that points to itself, I get the error message "stat(NAME_OF_LINK) > failed". However, doing the same thing with the find command gives an > ELOOP error: "too many levels symbolic links. > > Which error message is actually representing what is going on? > Neither message is incorrect: stat(NAME_OF_LINK) does > fail and the value of ERRNO is ELOOP. Would it be accepted to print no errors?PREV INDEX NEXT