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svent / sift

A fast and powerful alternative to grep
https://sift-tool.org
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Looping symlinks are followed forever #102

Open aude opened 5 years ago

aude commented 5 years ago

How to reproduce

$ mkdir a
$ ln -s .. a/link
$ sift --follow

Expected behavior

$ grep -R asdf
grep: warning: a/link: recursive directory loop

Actual behavior

$ sift asdf
...

sift hangs, following the symlinks indefinitely.