$ ln -s filea fileb
$ ln -s fileb filea
$ cat filea # symlink to a symlink
cat: files: Too many levels of symbolic links
Then I did the following for #2:
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ ln -s ../test dirsym
$ cd dirsym
This allows me to enter dirsym indefinitely -- i could see something
getting hung up over this if it followed the sym links..
I would imagine this would be true for the final scenario as well.
Trent Shipley wrote: > Is a *nix file system guranteed to be acyclic?
>
> That is no:
>
> File-a links to file-b and file-b links to file-a
>
> And more important
>
> No directory-a contains link-b where link-b points to directory-a.
>
> Also
>
> Directory-a contains no link-b to directory-c where directory-c contains
> link-d to directory-a.
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