File Walker

[Alex Tweedly]

On 30/09/2014 16:43, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Good catch.  400000 is a deep folder hierarchy, and I've seen the
>> recursion error very early on, suggesting that the problem isn't traversing
>> the folders at all, but merely that it can't access some because of
>> permission errors.
>
> If it is following symbolic links, it's downright common to find "loops" .
> . .
>
>
Yes, but this check should detect those too .... the resolved symblic 
link won't have the same FQN as the link itself had.
OK - it could differentiate with a better error message :-), but at 
least it should prevent the looping ...

-- Alex.