[Bug 248096] find can't traverse symbolic link to path properly?

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248096

andrew at tao11.riddles.org.uk changed:

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--- Comment #1 from andrew at tao11.riddles.org.uk ---
Working as designed, and as documented, and as required by specification.

The relevant part of the spec says:

   If neither the -H nor the -L option is specified, then the file information
and type for symbolic links encountered as a path operand on the command line
or encountered during the traversal of a file hierarchy shall be that of the
link itself.

That is to say,  `find somelink -type d`   sees "somelink" as being of type "l"
(symlink) and not "d" (directory), since the -H option was not used.
Accordingly the link is not matched.

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