Deep Space

[David Vaughan]

On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 21:33 Australia/Brisbane, Robert Brenstein 
<rjb at rz.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

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> Hmm, actually, when one walks directories, shouldn't one walk only the 
> true directories and treat aliases as files (which they are)?

Yes. As I intimated in my previous post, and have now verified again by 
experiment, the walker is *not* fooled by an alias.
I created this structure on a separate volume called "sliver":
tmp
    a real file, called "CRS BC Report.mell"
    a real directory, called "parent of fake"
       an alias to "tmp"

On being asked to walk this, the handler returned two files as follows:
    /Volumes/sliver/tmp/CRS+BC+Report.mell
    /Volumes/sliver/tmp/parent of fake/tmp
with maxDepth of 2, and did not loop. This is correct behaviour.

The problem I described in my previous post does not arise from an 
alias, but from a reference in //Networks to "[your computer 
name].local." which kicks off the cycling.

regards
David
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> Robert