Recursive Directory Link - libxml-devel

[Mike Klinke]

On Thursday 25 November 2004 02:41, Paul Howarth wrote:
 
> It's a compatibility thing.
>
> The headers in that directory can be accessed in two ways:
>
> #include <gnome-xml/example.h>
> #include <gnome-xml/libxml/example.h>
>
> One of them is probably deprecated but the symlink allows both to
> work without having to duplicate the files.
>

Ah, thanks, that's interesting.  I noticed it because grep threw up 
a warning note:
 
# grep -R no-word /usr/include/gnome*
grep: warning: /usr/include/gnome-xml/libxml: recursive directory 
loop

The authors of grep seem to have thought it unusual enough to 
indicate a problem to the user and it occured to me that this may 
cause other tools which traverse the directory structure to choke 
or hang without such a warning.  

Lesson learned for when I write my own little directory traversal 
utility I guess!

Regards, Mike Klinke