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While playing around with find in Terminal I came across this odd behavior:
There seems to be an infinite loop in the Mac File System like so:
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Volumes/Macintosh HD/
...and so on.
Apparently it is possible to access Volumes and Macintosh HD over and over again.
How is this possible? Should this not confuse any process digging recursively through the File System?
/Volumes/<startup> is simply a symlink, and there's no rules against where you can link.
$ ls -la /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1B 22 Feb 15:40 /Volumes/Macintosh HD -> /
It's not an actual infinite loop, only a loop of links; once followed, you're put back up the path.
pwd. It would make sense if that shortened the path.
findcommand, to your post, you were using to cause this loop.pwdcan produce the following output:/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Volumes/findjust pointed me to this because I tried to search only on myMacintosh HDand then realized that I got output from other volumes as well.