[bug #56410] find -L doesn't follow symlinks outside the specified search scope

[Andreas Metzler]

Follow-up Comment #15, bug #56410 (project findutils):

Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> I'm trying to find the documentation which would make you as a our user
think that -L would let -print or "-exec ... {}' +" use the resolved path
name. 


I think the description of -L very clearly states this:

-L     Follow symbolic links.  When find examines or *prints* information
about files, [...]

The filename is "information about files". The real behavior of -L is more
complicated than what this sentence says.

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