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| From | steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Too many levels of symbolic links |
| Date | 2021-01-20 11:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <BziKJ-6dh-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <Bz2FX-4l2-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <BzhlD-55M-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <BzhOF-5Do-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <BzihI-5MW-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <Bziro-5QC-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Le 20-01-2021, à 10:58:54 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de a écrit : >> >># find /dev -follow -printf "" >> >>find: '/dev/fd/4': No such file or directory >> > >> >This is funny. At first I thought I could reproduce it by tricking `find' >> >into following a broken symlink, but with a "static" setup I couldn't. >> > >> >Still, /dev/fd is bound to be highly dynamic: it's a link to /proc/self/fd, >> >i.e. a view on the current process's open file descriptors. It's quite >> >probable that `find' checks some directory entry, and at the time it tries >> >to do something with it, it has disappeared, leading to that error >> >message. >> >> What is strange is that it is always /dev/fd/4 that is missing, even >> after a reboot. > >As I said -- this is the own process's set of open file descriptors. >This process in this case is the one running `find' itself. At the >point it is looking for that /proc/fd/4, it is bound to be in some >semi-deterministic state. It's dancing a strange ballet with itself. 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. 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 ! Steve
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Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-19 10:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-01-19 13:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-19 14:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-19 15:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-19 16:00 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-19 16:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-01-19 17:20 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-19 18:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 08:50 +0100
[SOLVED] Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 08:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 09:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-20 10:20 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 10:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-20 11:00 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 11:20 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 11:30 +0100
Bluewin bouncing my mails [was: Too many levels of symbolic links] tomas@tuxteam.de - 2021-01-20 11:30 +0100
Re: Bluewin bouncing my mails tomas@tuxteam.de - 2021-01-20 12:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-20 11:30 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-01-20 11:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-20 11:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 12:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-20 16:20 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 16:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-20 22:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-21 08:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-21 08:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 08:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-22 08:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-01-22 13:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-23 09:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-01-23 16:20 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-22 14:00 +0100
remove me from this list J B Martin <bryant@ab-domain.com> - 2021-01-22 14:10 +0100
Re: remove me from this list Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-01-22 18:50 +0100
Re: remove me from this list "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-01-23 11:00 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-23 09:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-22 03:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-22 08:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-22 20:30 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-22 21:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-23 15:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-19 17:20 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-19 18:00 +0100
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