Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] Advice on Detecting Loops
Date: Sunday, 06 Sep 2020, 11:53:05

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > Could you give us some advice on how to detect a loop involving symbolic
    > links (with the -L flag)? Do we just check to see if the same node is
    > traversed multiple times so the graph is cyclic?

Yes, where "node" refers to the inodes for the files.

--Stan-