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Retr0idyesterday at 2:26 PM1 replyview on HN

GP was talking about symlink cycles though, which can't produce orphans during deletion.


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rleighyesterday at 2:50 PM

True, I missed that. I suppose with symlinks you have the reverse problem: you can point to deleted filenames and then have broken links. The cycle detection is still an issue though--it has indeterminate complexity and the graph can be modified as you are traversing it!

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