Re: [Infinite loop on symlinks.] don't we need to check the dev?

[Sam Roberts]

Hi Sergey,

Building a linked list on that stack is clever, I don't recall
seeing that before.

Since inodes aren't unique across devices, don't you need to check
both dev and inode?

Sam


Quoting Jeff Bailey <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Norbert Veber <address@hidden> -----
> 
> Subject: Bug#134330: mailutils-imap4d: Infinite loop on symlinks.
> 
> Package: mailutils-imap4d
> Version: 20011103-1.1
> Severity: important
> 
> In my directory, I have this:
> address@hidden:~/.gnome-desktop]$ ls -al
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x    3 nveber   nveber       4096 Feb 14 21:41 .
> drwx--x--x  111 nveber   nveber       8192 Feb 16 21:11 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 nveber   nveber          6 Feb 14 21:39 cdrom -> /cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 nveber   nveber          7 Feb 14 21:39 fd0 -> /floppy
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 nveber   nveber         12 Feb 14 21:39 Home directory
> -> /home/nveber
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 nveber   nveber         90 Jan  2 20:26 moviecd.sh
> drwx------    2 nveber   nveber       4096 Feb 14 21:47 Trash.gmc
> 
> When getting the list of folders from the imap server, it enters into an
> infite loop while listing the contents of my directory because of the symlink
> that points back to my directory.  An strace shows its reading the same
> directory over and over and over..
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux pyre 2.4.17 #2 Sun Dec 23 16:22:24 EST 2001 i686
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
> 
> Versions of packages mailutils-imap4d depends on:
> ii  libc6                       2.2.5-3      GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
> an
> ii  libmailutils0               20011103-1.1 GNU Mail Abstraction library
> ii  libpam0g                    0.72-35      Pluggable Authentication Modules 
> l
> ii  netbase                     4.07         Basic TCP/IP networking system

-- 
Sam Roberts <address@hidden> (Vivez sans temps mort!)

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