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Bug 62494 - Circular symlinks cause infinite memory allocation
Circular symlinks cause infinite memory allocation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
1.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Darin Adler
Nautilus Maintainers
: 64306 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-10-17 03:54 UTC by Havoc Pennington
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Havoc Pennington 2001-10-17 03:54:41 UTC 
link a file to itself, results in badness.

Original report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54684
Comment 1 Darin Adler 2001-10-17 05:43:36 UTC 
The usual approach for this sort of thing is to just hard-code
a fixed limit or recursion like the kernel does.

I have to admit, I'd prefer a bit more information. Like, what goes
wrong? Is the infinite loop in nautilus or in gnome-vfs? I guess the
bug report says it takes infinite RAM. I'll look into this soon, since
it's likely so trivial to fix.
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2001-10-24 16:31:13 UTC 
Fixed in CVS gnome-vfs
Comment 3 Darin Adler 2001-11-11 23:34:41 UTC 
*** Bug 64306 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***