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smitty123
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searching and symlinks : stuck in a loop

2016-05-13 17:05

using the search function (find files) , it gets stuck in an endless loop adding the path to the search path in an infinite loop, like the picture shows, notice the path at bottom of the window.

it never finishes the search.

winscpp 5.82 beta (b6284)

searchlooppath.PNG (12.3 KB)

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Re: searching and symlinks : stuck in a loop

2016-05-16

Please attach a full log file showing the problem (using the latest version of WinSCP).

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smitty123
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2016-05-16 21:54

here are the logs

all i did was use find files for something in /sys and it got caught in a loop at

2016-05-16 16:45:38.513 Listing directory "/sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-0".

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martin◆ Site Admin

2016-05-19

Thanks for the log.

I can see that in the i2c-0 folder, there's a device symlink to ../../mv64xxx_i2c.0. What is the mv64xxx_i2c.0? Is a symlink again? To i2c-0 or where?

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smitty123
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2016-05-19 17:26

martin wrote:

Thanks for the log.

I can see that in the i2c-0 folder, there's a device symlink to ../../mv64xxx_i2c.0. What is the mv64xxx_i2c.0? Is a symlink again? To i2c-0 or where?

looking in /sys/devices/platform/mv64xxx_i2c.0/i2c-0 i see what's in image i2c-0.png

and a symlink named "device" no "s" and that just points to ../../mv64xxx_i2c.0

aka /sys/devices/platform/mv64xxx_i2c.0 in absolute path. a parent folder.

i2c-0.PNG (87.98 KB)

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Re: searching and symlinks : stuck in a loop

2016-05-20

This bug was reopened to cover this issue:
https://winscp.net/tracker/1093

I'm sending you an email with a development version of WinSCP to the address you have used to register on this forum.

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