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Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

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Thanks Mike and Thomas for the answers.

Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:09 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de a écrit :

>On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:40:46AM +0100, steve wrote:
>> Question. What does the following mean?
>>
>> # 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.

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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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