Strange Tree

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999 Chris DiTrani <cditrani at ne.mediaone.net> wrote:

> I've noticed that on 2 RH5.2 and on 6.0 machines I have this strange
> recursive tree: /usr/bin/mh/mh/mh/mh/mh/mh........ It seems to go on for
> quite a while this way, and as far down as I travel into it there seems to
> exist the same files. I can't imagime this is normal. Anyone seen this?

/usr/bin/mh is a symlink to ".", which makes /usr/bin/mh a reference to
/usr/bin. The behavior you're seeing is a natural side effect of this.

/usr/bin/mh is the original installation directory for the Rand MH, and
some third-party tools depended on it; hence the symlink to maintain
backwards compatibility.

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