symlink cycles

Subject: symlink cycles
From: Norman Paterson (norman@dcs.st-and.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 12:05:47 EDT

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My Linux filesystem has cycles created by symbolic links. When I run Virex
to scan the files, it gets stuck in a loop.

Is there any easy way for me to detect these cycles before Virex does? Or
do I have to write a script myself?

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Norman Paterson, University of St Andrews
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