Bug#502941: gnome-screensaver: Infinite recursion for cyclical symlinks

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Fri Oct 31 16:46:45 UTC 2008


Le lundi 20 octobre 2008 à 22:00 -0300, Matthew Bardeen a écrit :
> A cyclical symlink will cause an infinite recursion through the directory 
> structure of /home/username. This will eat memory and 
> quickly cause out of memory conditions until the process is terminated. 

I can’t reproduce it here. Where do you create the cyclical symlink?

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