#!/bin/sh # Use du to exercise a corner of fts's FTS_LOGICAL code. # Show that du fails with ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links) # when it encounters that condition. # Copyright (C) 2006-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ du # Create lots of directories, each containing a single symlink # pointing at the next directory in the list. # This number should be larger than the number of symlinks allowed in # file name resolution, but not too large as a number of entries # in a single directory. n=400 dir_list=$(seq $n) mkdir $dir_list || framework_failure_ file=1 i_minus_1=0 for i in $dir_list $(expr $n + 1); do case $i_minus_1 in 0) ;; *) ln -s ../$i $i_minus_1/s || framework_failure_ file=$file/s;; esac i_minus_1=$i done echo foo > $i || framework_failure_ # If a system can handle this many symlinks in a file name, # just skip this test. # The following also serves to record in 'err' the string # corresponding to strerror (ELOOP). This is necessary because while # Linux/libc gives 'Too many levels of symbolic links', Solaris # renders it as "Number of symbolic links encountered during path # name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS". cat $file > /dev/null 2> err && skip_ 'Your system appears to be able to handle more than $n symlinks in file name resolution' too_many=$(sed 's/.*: //' err) # With coreutils-5.93 there was no failure. # With coreutils-5.94 we get the desired diagnostic: # du: cannot access '1/s/s/s/.../s': Too many levels of symbolic links du -L 1 > /dev/null 2> out1 && fail=1 sed "s, .1/s/s/s/[/s]*',," out1 > out || framework_failure_ echo "du: cannot access: $too_many" > exp || framework_failure_ compare exp out || fail=1 Exit $fail