Re: Possible bug in readlink, canonicalize fails.

[Jim Meyering]

mpb <address@hidden> wrote:
> I believe the following script demonstrates that readlink cannot
> always canonicalize paths.  It may be possible to create a simpler
> demonstration of the bug, but I could not trivially do so.

Thanks for the report and the nice test case.
I have code that's a work in progress (needed in another part
of coreutils) that does a better job of detecting such (non)cycles.

This will be fixed before 6.10.