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# Use du to exercise a corner of fts's FTS_LOGICAL code.
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# Show that du fails with ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links)
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# when it encounters that condition.
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# Copyright (C) 2006-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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. "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../src
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# Create lots of directories, each containing a single symlink
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# pointing at the next directory in the list.
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# This number should be larger than the number of symlinks allowed in
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# file name resolution, but not too large as a number of entries
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# in a single directory.
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mkdir $dir_list || framework_failure_
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for i in $dir_list `expr $n + 1`; do
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ln -s ../$i $i_minus_1/s || framework_failure_
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# If a system can handle this many symlinks in a file name,
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# just skip this test.
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# The following also serves to record in `err' the string
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# corresponding to strerror (ELOOP). This is necessary because while
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# Linux/libc gives `Too many levels of symbolic links', Solaris
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# renders it as `Number of symbolic links encountered during path
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# name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS'.
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cat $file > /dev/null 2> err &&
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skip_ 'Your system appears to be able to handle more than $n symlinks
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in file name resolution'
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too_many=`sed 's/.*: //' err`
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# With coreutils-5.93 there was no failure.
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# With coreutils-5.94 we get the desired diagnostic:
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# du: cannot access `1/s/s/s/.../s': Too many levels of symbolic links
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du -L 1 > /dev/null 2> out1 && fail=1
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sed "s, .1/s/s/s/[/s]*',," out1 > out || fail=1
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echo "du: cannot access: $too_many" > exp || fail=1
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compare out exp || fail=1