rclone/backend/local/symlink_other.go
Manish Gupta 95d0410baa
local: continue listing files/folders when a circular symlink is detected
Before this change a circular symlink would cause rclone to error out from the listings.

After this change rclone will skip a circular symlink and carry on the listing,
producing an error at the end.

Fixes #4743
2020-11-12 11:32:55 +00:00

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Go

// +build windows plan9 js
package local
import (
"strings"
)
// isCircularSymlinkError checks if the current error code is because of a circular symlink
func isCircularSymlinkError(err error) bool {
if err != nil {
if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "The name of the file cannot be resolved by the system") {
return true
}
}
return false
}