Infinite Recursion

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.05.9811022035210.171-100000 at pyridine.res.cmu.edu>, 
Geoff
rey Alan Washburn writes:
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| 	Here at CMU we have a volume called OldFiles mounted in our home
|   directories that is basically a periodic backup of the files in our
+--->8

AFS backup volume.

|   home directory.  I was just noticing that if I do an 'ls -lR' in my home
|   directory when it's mounted via Arla it will attempt to infinitely
|   recurse down this directory.  This doesn't happen with the Transarc AFS
|   client.  Interestingly enough, 'find' doesn't recurse down it at all.  
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The "OldFiles" mountpoint is itself duplicated in the backup volume, thus 
creating a self-referential mount.  The Transarc client disallows this, but 
Arla sees nothing wrong.  I suspect Arla should detect that a mountpoint 
references the volume containing the mopuntpoint and disallow it, just as 
the Transarc client does.

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