Re: sysfs: recursive directory loop

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On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:04:46PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i was doing a simple recursive grep under /sys on my FC6 system and
> got a "recursive directory loop" message.  sure enough:
> 
> $ ls -l /sys/class/sound/seq/subsystem
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 25 11:54 /sys/class/sound/seq/subsystem -> ../../../class/sound
> 
> how exactly am i supposed to interpret that?

that it's a loop and it is designed that way :)

this comes up about every few months, and is not a problem.

Try disabling CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and you will see why those
symlinks are there a bit better.

thanks,

greg k-h

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