#37 Directory Recursion Trouble

[Eric Seidel]

Got this this afternoon:

Hi.

OpenAG X started listing over 2000 shares (i have around 100) and
then quitting, even after turning the "Sub" checkbox off in the
preferences.

It was because I had an alias to a parent folder *inside* a
subdirectory of that parent folder. I removed it and everything was
ok.

Just thought you might want to add a few more lines of code to
check for that kind of situation, or warn about it in the docs (which,
I humbly admit, I did not check to see if you already knew about
this).

Paul

[Eric Seidel]

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Actually... that should be handled correctly already.... hum... or not.

I think I know what you mean. Currently, it will traverse the directory
until it reaches 100 levels, or until it can't anymore. So yes.... if it was
taking 100^100, I can see how it might quit.

I'll see what I can do.

Any suggestions anyone? I could check when recursing to see if the
directory i'm recursing to has a shorter path name then the one before...
but that would not work with real symlinks then... if you liked from say /
usr/home/eric/mymusic/ to /usr/local/music/ or whatever. who knows.

-eric