Re: Bug#135004: marked as done (general: cyclic symlink under /etc/X11 prevents backups)
> From: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
> >
> > /etc/X11/app-defaults/app-defaults is symlinked to /etc/X11/app-defaults
> > producing a syclic symlink.
>
> Having the circular symlink is bad. But, there is also /etc/apache/conf -> .
>
> > This prevents backups with veritas backup-exec. Possibly other backup
> > software and software that tries to traverse dirs can be affected as
> > well (can't test).
>
> Use a backup program that understands symlinks. Anything else on a unix
> operating system will not work.
It also sucks that diff -r will recurse down a symlink (including
recursive ones...). Are these symlinks pointing to "." actually useful?
Especially the apache one has been around for ages; I can understand
temporary / transitional ones, as the app-defaults one probably is(*),
but at some stage they should go away.
(*) although I can't imagine why something should try to access
/etc/X11/app-defaults/app-defaults/Foo.ad .
Paul Slootman
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