From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:29:30 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Add a note to clarify os.walk() behavior with respect
X-Git-Tag: v2.2_pre1~625
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d847b5a97929fb8226c47a76d2472e2415d85034;p=portage.git

Add a note to clarify os.walk() behavior with respect
to symlinks to directories.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=8124
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diff --git a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
index e2797b2fa..67e10b4e3 100644
--- a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
+++ b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
@@ -1731,6 +1731,9 @@ class dblink(object):
 				if stat.S_ISREG(file_mode):
 					myfilelist.append(file_path[len(srcroot):])
 				elif stat.S_ISLNK(file_mode):
+					# Note: os.walk puts symlinks to directories in the "dirs"
+					# list and it does not traverse them since that could lead
+					# to an infinite recursion loop.
 					mylinklist.append(file_path[len(srcroot):])
 
 		# Preserve old libs if they are still in use