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Re: Too many levels of symbolic links



On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:15:26AM +0100, steve wrote:
> Le 20-01-2021, à 10:58:54 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de a écrit :
> 
> >>>># find /dev -follow -printf ""

[...]

> >This process in this case is the one running `find' itself. At the

[...]

> Ah ok, I misunderstood that. Very interesting indeed.
> 
> >I'm sure one could find out exactly what's going on given enough
> >patience :-)
> 
> I' guess so.

The /proc file system is pretty interesting indeed. But I don't think
that is at the root of your strange problem.

> My current is to find out why my system is spitting out these 'too many
> symnolic links' messages and then fix it.
> 
> Thanks a lot for all your explanation !

You're welcome -- although I fear I couldn't help you much with your
primary issue.

Cheers
 - t

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