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+#!/bin/sh
+# Use du to exercise a corner of fts's FTS_LOGICAL code.
+# Show that du fails with ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links)
+# when it encounters that condition.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+. "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
+print_ver_ du
+
+# Create lots of directories, each containing a single symlink
+# pointing at the next directory in the list.
+
+# This number should be larger than the number of symlinks allowed in
+# file name resolution, but not too large as a number of entries
+# in a single directory.
+n=400
+
+dir_list=$(seq $n)
+mkdir $dir_list || framework_failure_
+file=1
+i_minus_1=0
+for i in $dir_list $(expr $n + 1); do
+  case $i_minus_1 in
+  0) ;;
+  *)
+    ln -s ../$i $i_minus_1/s || framework_failure_
+    file=$file/s;;
+  esac
+  i_minus_1=$i
+done
+echo foo > $i || framework_failure_
+
+# If a system can handle this many symlinks in a file name,
+# just skip this test.
+
+# The following also serves to record in 'err' the string
+# corresponding to strerror (ELOOP).  This is necessary because while
+# Linux/libc gives 'Too many levels of symbolic links', Solaris
+# renders it as "Number of symbolic links encountered during path
+# name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS".
+
+cat $file > /dev/null 2> err &&
+    skip_ 'Your system appears to be able to handle more than $n symlinks
+in file name resolution'
+too_many=$(sed 's/.*: //' err)
+
+
+# With coreutils-5.93 there was no failure.
+# With coreutils-5.94 we get the desired diagnostic:
+# du: cannot access '1/s/s/s/.../s': Too many levels of symbolic links
+du -L 1 > /dev/null 2> out1 && fail=1
+sed "s, .1/s/s/s/[/s]*',," out1 > out || framework_failure_
+
+echo "du: cannot access: $too_many" > exp || framework_failure_
+
+compare exp out || fail=1
+
+Exit $fail