[bug #65831] Test -type l is unsuccessful for symlink loops

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                 Summary: Test -type l is unsuccessful for symlink loops
                   Group: findutils
               Submitter: jay
               Submitted: Mon 03 Jun 2024 12:55:32 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Tavian Barnes
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: None
         Discussion Lock: Any
           Fixed Release: None


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Date: Mon 03 Jun 2024 12:55:32 PM UTC By: James Youngman <jay>
From https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51926#comment8

>Commit b12fb8c ("Fix sv bug #51926: -xtype l fails on symlinks that have a
loop") fixes this for -xtype, but what about
>$ ln -s loop loop
>$ find -L loop -type l

Right now we get this result:


$ find -L loop -type l
find: ‘loop’: Too many levels of symbolic links


The exit status is 1.  Nothing is printed on stdout. The POSIX standard says
(in the non-normative RATIONALE section):

>Since the -L option resolves all symbolic links and the -type l primary is
true for symbolic links that still exist after symbolic links have been
resolved, the command:
>find -L . -type l
> prints a list of symbolic links reachable from the current directory that do
not resolve to accessible files.










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