Re: Symlink strangeness

Alan Modra (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:17:16 +0930 (CST)


On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> All,
>
> This is a strange one. With kernel 2.1.122-pre2, I have this situation:
>
> total 669
> drwxr-xr-x 23 hirsch system 36864 Sep 14 18:23 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 12 17:55 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 hirsch system 13 Sep 12 14:29 linux -> linux-2.1.122
> drwxr-xr-x 15 hirsch system 1024 Sep 13 13:25 linux-2.1.122
>
> Doing this gets me zero hits:
>
> (hirsch@air) ~ : find /usr/src/linux -name "*.h" -print
> (hirsch@air) ~ :

Yep, that's the way find works with symlinks. You'll get the same
behaviour on linux 2.0, sunos, and solaris. 2.1.122 has a fix to the 2.1
symlink behaviour, which previously was wrong (IMNSHO).

Do "find /usr/src/linux/. -name \*.h" instead.

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