Re: [bug #25294] assertion failure on dangling symlink to //

[James Youngman]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
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> According to Jim Meyering on 1/11/2009 3:06 PM:
>> I tried your "find -L dir-containing-loop" example
>> on ext3, tmpfs, and xfs, and it appears d_type is always DT_LNK,
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> Is there any file system on Linux where you can always get DT_UNKNOWN?  If
> not, I'll keep playing with it on the cygwin side of things.

Some types of files in AFS can permanently give that result, I
understand, due to the slightly different nature of permissions in
AFS.

James.