[bug #66374] Permissions errors from unnecessary attemp to read symlink targets

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #66374 (group findutils):

Hi. I'm fairly sure that it's not attempting to read the symlink target. But
rather, the -xtype predicate is attempting to follow the symlink in order to
obtain the type of the target. That's not the same thing as reading the
target. The -xtype predicate needs to stat the target, not read it. In other
words, it needs to read the target's inode, not its contents, but because of
the permissions of demo, it can't locate the inode. Hence the error message
about permissions.


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