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Bug 571988 - Symbolic links can cause infinite loop in resolveSymlink
Symbolic links can cause infinite loop in resolveSymlink
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: doxygen
Classification: Other
Component: general
1.5.8
Other Mac OS
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Dimitri van Heesch
Dimitri van Heesch
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-02-16 13:17 UTC by Robert Lupton
Modified: 2009-07-19 09:55 UTC
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Description Robert Lupton 2009-02-16 13:17:48 UTC 
On my os/x box, we have:

$ ls -ld /usr/include/c++/4.0.0/i686-apple-darwin8
/usr/include/c++/4.0.0/i686-apple-darwin8 -> i686-apple-darwin9

This causes an infinite loop in
static QCString resolveSymlink(QCString path)

The problem seems to be that the path
   /usr/include/c++/4.0.0/i686-apple-darwin8
gets rewritten as
   /usr/include/c++/4.0.0/i686-apple-darwin8/i686-apple-darwin9
and then reparsed.  As it's parsed, we get back to
   /usr/include/c++/4.0.0/i686-apple-darwin8
and the loop continues.

I'm not sure why the rewrite isn't from
   /usr/include/c++/4.0.0/i686-apple-darwin8
gets rewritten as
   /usr/include/c++/4.0.0/i686-apple-darwin9
Comment 1 Martin von Gagern 2009-04-18 21:17:16 UTC 
Also seen on Gentoo: http://bugs.gentoo.org/266693
Seems to be solved in r678, Release 1.5.8-20090129.
See http://doxygen.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/doxygen/trunk/src/doxygen.cpp?view=patch&r1=678&r2=677&pathrev=678
Comment 2 Dimitri van Heesch 2009-07-19 09:55:33 UTC 
Should be fixed in 1.5.9 (as confirmed by the gentoo users).
If you still see this issue please reopen the bug.