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delaroca is offline delaroca
2009-07-02 , 00:59
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#11
Originally Posted by BrentDC View Post
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 is offline delaroca
2009-07-02 , 01:05
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#12
Originally Posted by BrentDC View Post
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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