[humor] taper seg faults to signal recursive symlinks

[karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

 From the Taper manual:


Look for recursive links

It is possible on some systems that you have recursive links. For
example, you may have a soft link that points to "./". This leads to a
recursive situation which does not matter if you do not follow links.

If you follow links (via the soft-links option), then taper will crash
as it encounters this link. Running this utility identifies any
recursive links you may have so that you can either tell tapernot to
use hard links, or so you can remove the offending link.  Just enter
the starting directory you wish to test - taper will look for
recursive links and tell you if you have any. In some situations,
taper will seg fault at the link. This is not a problem since you will
know where the offending link is by when it seg faults.


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