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Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] symbolic link follow-up
Date: Wednesday, 09 Sep 2020, 19:01:17


    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > On the previous example given "Suppose that fiend is traversing the tree
    > rooted at S, where S is a directory that contains a symbolic link T to
    > ../S."
    >
    > Let's say that T has subdirectories, A. In -L, once we reach S/T, since
    > S/T is a repeat, we don't evlauate the expression on that path, but do we
    > continue traversing to S/T/A?

T is a symbolic link to ../S, which means that T cannot
be a directory and that S/T/A is another name for S/A.

Thus I do not understand your question.

--Stan-
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