(Related) GNU Findutils manual / 2.7 Type

The behavior of find with types concerning loops is:

1. section "Test: -type c"

• Nothing. The behavior of find -type c for loops is undefined.

2. section "Test: -xtype c"

• "For broken symbolic links (or loops), ‘-xtype’ behaves like ‘-type’ does." (go to: 1.)

(^_^')

From https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51926#comment8

>Commit b12fb8c ("Fix sv bug #51926: -xtype l fails on symlinks that have a loop") fixes this for -xtype, but what about
>$ ln -s loop loop
>$ find -L loop -type l

Right now we get this result:

$ find -L loop -type l
find: ‘loop’: Too many levels of symbolic links

The exit status is 1.  Nothing is printed on stdout. The POSIX standard says (in the non-normative RATIONALE section):

>Since the -L option resolves all symbolic links and the -type l primary is true for symbolic links that still exist after symbolic links have been resolved, the command:
>find -L . -type l
> prints a list of symbolic links reachable from the current directory that do not resolve to accessible files.