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?
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