Bug#591242: [perl #117789] File::Find does not call dangling_symlinks if follow => 0

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 04:21:57PM -0700, James E Keenan via RT wrote:
> On Sun Apr 28 11:00:18 2013, dom wrote:

> > From <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591242>:
> > 
> > "when using the find method of File::Find, it seems that the
> > dangling_symlink callback is only called if follow => 1. This is not
> > reflected in the manpage, and there are valid use cases for follow =>0
> > and dangling_symlinks."
> 
> Could you elaborate a bit on what those use cases are?

Hi Joachim,

Could you provide a bit more information about this to the upstream
bug report? It should be enough to reply-all to this message.

Thanks!
Dominic.

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