Is fd -L -t l supposed to work?

[timkgh]

What version of fd are you using?
fd 8.3.1

I understand that the -L and -t l are kinda at odds with each other, but I would expect that fd could follow the symlinks and also print any symlinks it runs into. Is this a bug or desired behavior?

[timkgh]

It finds broken symlinks, which I suppose could be useful 😄

[tmccombs]

I don't know if it is "supposed to work", but the reason it doesn't work is because of the way the walkdir crate works.

Specifically, if the option to follow symlinks is enabled, then metadata() method will return the metadata for the target of the symlink rather than the symlink itself. And most of the time, that is what you want, so that for example you can know if the symlink points to a file or a directory, or the modification time of the target of the symlink etc.

Changing the behavior isn't too difficult. I almost have it working on a branch. But it seems to hang for some reason. I haven't figured it out yet.

[sharkdp]

I would like to close this for now. @timkgh See reasoning in #940.