for broken symbolic links.
Symptoms:
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[lxtc3861 - ~ #] ls -l | grep -- "->"
lrwxrwxrwx [...] Mar 23 11:16 root -> /
lrwxrwxrwx [...] Mar 29 09:57 symlink -> i_do_not_exist
lrwxrwxrwx [...] Mar 29 10:01 symlink_working -> linuxrc
lrwxrwxrwx [...] Mar 23 11:16 tmp -> var/tmp
[lxtc3861 - ~ #] ls sy
symlink_working sys/ system/
[lxtc3861 - ~ #] ls sy
Explanation:
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The symbolic link "symlink" points to "i_do_not_exist" and this file
does (surprise, surprise) not exist. Although the symlink is there and
occupies an inode and is a "real" file, it doesn't get listed as part
of the possible matches.
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Took me some time to find out why, but in fact, it was quite harmless.
I think, this patch shouldn't do anything bad, if I understood the
manpages correctly.
The attached patch fixes this for me.
cmdedit-broken_symlink-issue.diff [^] (349 bytes) 04-02-06 23:48 
