Re: [Nautilus-list] Cute bug.

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Darin Adler wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 17, 2001, at 03:34  PM, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
>
> > ln -s /tmp/foo /tmp/foo
> >
> > (go to /tmp in nautilus)
> >
> > Watch nautilus run out of memory and die.  Should I file this bug in
> > bugzilla.eazel.com?
>
>
> Sure. And you should also fix it. Simplest fix is just a hard-coded 
> limit (50 levels or something like that).


Only problem is that /someday/ somebody will have a legitimate reason 
for 50 levels of symlinks.  I know, it sounds silly, but so did > 640k 
of memory at one time not that long ago . . .  .

I think a better solution would be an intelligent algorithm to detect 
recursive links.

My shell (bash) simply displays a broken link.  How do they do it?

-b

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