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| -rw-r--r-- | sos/plugins/__init__.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sos/plugins/__init__.py b/sos/plugins/__init__.py index e50e0d31..21e01867 100644 --- a/sos/plugins/__init__.py +++ b/sos/plugins/__init__.py @@ -268,7 +268,13 @@ class Plugin(object): # to absolute paths to pass to _do_copy_path. self._log_debug("normalized link target '%s' as '%s'" % (linkdest, absdest)) - self._do_copy_path(absdest) + + # skip recursive copying of symlink pointing to itself. + if (absdest != srcpath): + self._do_copy_path(absdest) + else: + self._log_debug("link '%s' points to itself, skipping target..." + % linkdest) self.copied_files.append({'srcpath': srcpath, 'dstpath': srcpath, |