Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] Symlink Clarification
Date: Thursday, 17 Sep 2020, 10:49:26

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > 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?

No.  The point of the posting was that the wording of
the error message was irrelevant.

--Stan-