> What it means is that you can't write a naive recursive tree traversal program
> when working with directories.  (Eg.  I want to write a PHP program that
> gives me a flat alphabetic index for an entire web site.)
>
> Any idea about how to build a hash of i-nodes so that you traverse a cycle in
> the directory structure one-and-only one time?
>

ls -l makes it pretty ovious what directories are symbolic links.

lrwxrwxrwx   1 jd       jd             15 Feb 19 16:41 maildir -> /var/spool/mail
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Also look at the is_link function in php:
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.is-link.php


JD

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