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From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:06:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: Symlink'ed current directory and FIND
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On Friday 22 December 2000 07:40, Philip Sainty wrote:
> Is it too simplistic to imagine that a call to test (or the
> relevant code thereof) be made in find to determine
> whether the given path is actually a symlink? It only
> needs to happen once per find, so wouldn't cause
> much of a hit on performance.

Go ahead. Take the sources of `find' and patch them.

Corinna

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