Merge branch 'revert-eloop'

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/bfstd.c b/src/bfstd.c
index 1c5e289..44eda7c 100644
--- a/src/bfstd.c
+++ b/src/bfstd.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ bool error_is_like(int error, int category) {
 
 	switch (category) {
 	case ENOENT:
-		return error == ENOTDIR || error == ELOOP;
+		return error == ENOTDIR;
 
 	case ENOSYS:
 		// https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/2151
diff --git a/src/eval.c b/src/eval.c
index c0fe6ca..0b5992e 100644
--- a/src/eval.c
+++ b/src/eval.c
@@ -999,6 +999,13 @@ bool eval_xtype(const struct bfs_expr *expr, struct bfs_eval *state) {
 	const struct BFTW *ftwbuf = state->ftwbuf;
 	enum bfs_stat_flags flags = ftwbuf->stat_flags ^ (BFS_STAT_NOFOLLOW | BFS_STAT_TRYFOLLOW);
 	enum bfs_type type = bftw_type(ftwbuf, flags);
+
+	// GNU find treats ELOOP as a broken symbolic link for -xtype l
+	// (but not -L -type l)
+	if ((flags & BFS_STAT_TRYFOLLOW) && type == BFS_ERROR && errno == ELOOP) {
+		type = BFS_LNK;
+	}
+
 	if (type == BFS_ERROR) {
 		eval_report_error(state);
 		return false;