[bug #56410] find -L doesn't follow symlinks outside the specified search scope

[Bernhard Voelker]

Follow-up Comment #14, bug #56410 (project findutils):

We're always interested in improving things, so thanks again for reporting
an issue like this.

The implementation of -L is correct - or at least we don't have a proven
example where it wouldn't be -; (only) the search, i.e., the tests, are based
on the file referenced by the file a symbolic link points to.
Or in the words of POSIX:

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

Cause the file information and file type evaluated for each symbolic link
encountered
as a path operand on the command line or encountered during the traversal of a
file
hierarchy to be those of the file referenced by the link, and not the link
itself.


I'm trying to find the documentation which would make you as a our user
think that -L would let -print or "-exec ... {}' +" use the resolved path
name.
Would you point us to such unclear passage, or even better provide a clearer
phrasing as a matter for discussion?

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny



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