Implement support for following symlinks

[refi64]

Signed-off-by: Ryan Gonzalez ryan.gonzalez@collabora.com

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Unfortunately, it wasn't possible to make work as needed without these two PRs to walkdir: BurntSushi/walkdir#159 BurntSushi/walkdir#160

However, it seems that PRs to walkdir have been stagnant since late 2020 / early 2021, so for the purpose of testing, I created a single branch on my fork with both PRs merged in, and Cargo.toml in here is pointing to that branch. I'm not quite sure how to handle this as a result, so this is in draft status. Any thoughts on how to handle this?

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[sylvestre]

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[refi64]

Ah nice! This seems to affect quite a few tests. Any ideas for how to handle the walkdir issue, though?

[mcharsley]

The initial release of findutils was pinned to a specific version in my branch of walkdir, while I waited for BurntSushi/walkdir#19 to be accepted and included in a release. So it's not without precedent. Long term, I'd suggest giving it a few months and then making our own branch if the PRs keep piling up there untouched? Mark

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[tavianator]

It is possible to work around BurntSushi/walkdir#160 the same way fd does it: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/blob/9f5ed8534e824b3e2a0934ff3aa0b781cb370688/src/walk.rs#L490-L503. But it would be nice if walkdir would do it itself.

[refi64]

@tavianator I was originally going to try using a similar system here, but there were 2 things that made me go with the walkdir patches instead:

• walkdir patches are needed anyway so that find a-symlink will not traverse into it without -L. The alternative would be to manually check if it's a symlink ourselves first but...
• ...findutils does seem to use more platform-specific DirEntry functionality that fd does, so re-implementing a custom DirEntry wrapper would be a decent bit messier, at least from my initial investigations

That being said, if the walkdir PR stays stagnant for too long, it may be worth switching over.

[sylvestre]

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