On Thursday 25 November 2004 02:41, Paul Howarth wrote: > It's a compatibility thing. > > The headers in that directory can be accessed in two ways: > > #include <gnome-xml/example.h> > #include <gnome-xml/libxml/example.h> > > One of them is probably deprecated but the symlink allows both to > work without having to duplicate the files. > Ah, thanks, that's interesting. I noticed it because grep threw up a warning note: # grep -R no-word /usr/include/gnome* grep: warning: /usr/include/gnome-xml/libxml: recursive directory loop The authors of grep seem to have thought it unusual enough to indicate a problem to the user and it occured to me that this may cause other tools which traverse the directory structure to choke or hang without such a warning. Lesson learned for when I write my own little directory traversal utility I guess! Regards, Mike Klinke
