[bug #54263] find -L treats ENOENT and ENOTDIR differently

[Bernhard Voelker]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #54263 (project findutils):

Reading the specification again:

[http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html]


-L   [...].  If the referenced file does not exist, the file information
     and type shall be for the link itself.


This means that an error should not be thrown for broken links (well,
probably
only for primitives that require the symlink to be resolved like '-printf
%Y').

And later on:


Since the -L option resolves all symbolic links and the -type l primary
is true for symbolic links that still exist after symbolic links have
been resolved, the command:

  find -L . -type l

prints a list of symbolic links reachable from the current directory
that do not resolve to accessible files.


The spec does not differentiate between ENOENT and ENOTDIR here.
So the current behavior seems to be debatable, at least.
I have to think about this ...

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