>David> 	You could keep the directory open at each level open and use
>David> fchdir()
>
>Doh!  Even better.

yeah...and then you can "cd .." without having to worry about having
traversed symlinks in the first place.  :)

btw - will "find -Hx" follow a symlink into another file system?  if
not, a separate /tmp filesystem would definitely be helpful here.

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