Author: Unknown
Subject: Broken Symbolic Links Weird Behavior
Date: Monday, 14 Sep 2020, 04:49:33

Inside my file, I have a broken symbolic link linking down into a subdirectory that no longer exists. In this case, ./hwk1/linkToLink3 links to /home/accts/xxx1/cs323/hwk1/a/linkToLink3 which doesn't exist.

However, the terminal prints:
./hwk1/linkToLink3
fiend: Loop at ./linkToLink3

even though the loop does not actually exist since the link leads nowhere. For working links that loop, the staff Fiend prints only an error. For broken links, the staff fiend just prints the name of the broken link. Is this behavior intentional?