On 2024-01-21 17:02, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 4:07 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Shouldn't there be an error msg in such cases?Are you sure there wasn't, somewhere above all that output?
I'm not TTTT. I presume it must come at the end, where the output stops, but ...
Anyway it overflowed my terminal buffer so I'd not be able to scroll back to see it. I must say zsh can do a mountain of work before she runs out of resources. She was grinding away for almost an hour.
A symlink loop is not detectable without extraordinary measures such as recording and testing the inode number of every directory visited.
Sure. Nevermind, I don't think even I have ever broken things to that extent before, it's hardly a concern. I hope never to visit /proc ever again. Thanks Bart.