[Techtalk] infinite subdirs!!

[Kai MacTane]

At 3/12/04 09:58 PM , Carla Schroder wrote:
>Ever see anything like this? It's the same with ls or a graphical browser, 
>the
>subdirs never end:
>http://bratgrrl.com/boot.png

I accidentally created something like that once, with a script that didn't 
perform quite the way I'd intended. Of course, there can't actually be a 
truly infinite number of subdirectories there; each dir does take a few 
bytes, plus an inode, and both of those are finite resources.

It can be vaguely amusing to see how long "rm -rf /boot/boot" takes to 
complete. (Just make *sure* that the files you need in /boot are really 
there, rather than stuck way down in /boot/boot/boot/.../boot somehow. But 
you knew that already.)

So, how did this happen?

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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