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Re: Too many levels of symbolic links



On 2021-01-20 08:40, steve wrote:
Question. What does the following mean?

# find /dev -follow -printf ""
find: '/dev/fd/4': No such file or directory

I don't know but they look to be symlinks that get created to pseudo terminals /dev/pts/0 by eg ssh, telnet.
Maybe a session crashed and left the symlink in place ?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93531/what-is-stored-in-dev-pts-files-and-can-we-open-them

mick


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