[X4U] Finder hell!

[Enrico Franconi]

On 31 Jul 2006, at 06:36, John Daschbach wrote:
> At work, running the latest 10.3

(...)

> Any directory with a symlink to an AFS file system would hang the  
> whole system once the AFS link was no longer valid.  Apparently OS  
> X has no time out on scanning a directory, so when it hits a dead  
> link it waits forever for it to return a list of files.

This was a known bug that has been fixed (with a timeout) in Tiger.
--e.