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

[James Youngman]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #56410 (project findutils):

The output I get looks like this:

$ sh sv56410.sh 

with -L
  3152508      4 -rw-r--r--   1 youngman primarygroup        5 May 29 11:41
temp2/file
(ends)

without -L
(ends)

with -L ... -exec file
temp2/file: symbolic link to ../temp/file0.txt
(ends)

/tmp/tmp.jbIJfW8mse:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 youngman primarygroup 4096 May 29 11:41 temp
drwxr-xr-x 2 youngman primarygroup 4096 May 29 11:41 temp2

/tmp/tmp.jbIJfW8mse/temp:
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 youngman primarygroup 5 May 29 11:41 file0.txt

/tmp/tmp.jbIJfW8mse/temp2:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 youngman primarygroup 17 May 29 11:41 file -> ../temp/file0.txt


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