>
> I know why unix didn't allow loops in the filesystem tree. I'm just
> saying that you have to justify a feature before adding it. If he was
> able to nicely solve problems with loops and show some application
> that benefits from it, then it could be considered for Linux.
>
It's bad IMO. Consider someone doing `ln . foo`. Find algorithms could not
stop, because they would be recursing until 1. dawn 2. PATH_MAX is reached
3. a user option says so (e.g. -maxdepth). Symlinks provide at least one
way to know when not to endlessy dive into directories.
Jan Engelhardt
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