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

[Matthew Bardeen]

It was in my .transgaming directory... A couple directories underneath that is 
a "My Documents" symlink that pointed to /home/username.


On Friday 31 October 2008 13:46:45 Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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?