[Sunhelp] circular recursive search

[Ana Yuseepi]

we all know that some files in the default installation of solaris have circular links.... 

to mention a few, we have
/usr/X/bin/xview -> .

but, with find, as in 
# find / -name install
the above command always terminates successfully...
but when i do,
# mkdir /new
# cp /usr /new
the above 2 commands, would result to some never ending loop due to the circular link...

whats the step taken for this between "find" and "copy"?
-Ana : )

------Original Message------
From: Wolfgang Engelien <wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu>
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Sent: March 14, 2000 4:56:15 PM GMT
Subject: [Sunhelp] circular recursive search


Hi,

when I try to search the whole directory tree
of one server with find, I never get beyond
/net/servername, because then it tries
/net/servername/net/servername/net/....

What do I have to change to prevent this?

I would like to keep the ability to access
local files on the server via /net/servername.

Thanks,
Wolfgang


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