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delaroca 2009-07-02 00:59

Re: how to access /home or /usr
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by BrentDC (Post 301273)
That is not a good idea -- you will create a circular file reference. Any application (or something in the OS itself) trying to read your device will get stuck in a forever loop navigating /home/user/MyDocs/home/user/MyDocs/home/user/...(etc).

Yes, metalayer-crawler is such an app... I disabled it from day one -- not because of the mod above but because it kept on running too much.

Recursive file scans using 'find' work fine... ie., don't get tripped by the above so I live fine with the mod.

--denis

delaroca 2009-07-02 01:05

Re: how to access /home or /usr
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by BrentDC (Post 301273)
That is not a good idea -- you will create a circular file reference. Any application (or something in the OS itself) trying to read your device will get stuck in a forever loop navigating /home/user/MyDocs/home/user/MyDocs/home/user/...(etc).


Yes, metalayer-crawler is such an app... I disabled it from day one -- not because of the mod above but because it kept on running too frequently.

Recursive file scans using 'find' work fine... ie., don't get tripped by the above so I live fine with the mod.

--denis


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