Too many symbolic links

[bidoubiwa]

Tell us about your environment

• ESLint Version: 7.21
• Node Version: 12
• npm Version: 6.14
• Operating System: Linux

What parser (default, @babel/eslint-parser, @typescript-eslint/parser, etc.) are you using?
default

Please show your full configuration:

Configuration

module.exports = {
  env: {
    browser: true,
    commonjs: true,
    es2020: true,
    node: true
  },
  globals: {
    strapi: true
  },
  extends: [
    'plugin:react/recommended',
    'standard'
  ],
  parserOptions: {
    ecmaFeatures: {
      jsx: true
    },
    ecmaVersion: 11
  },
  plugins: [
    'react'
  ],
  settings: {
    react: {
      version: 'detect'
    }
  },
  rules: {
    'react/jsx-indent': 'error'
  }
}

What did you do? Please include the actual source code causing the issue, as well as the command that you used to run ESLint.

eslint --ext .js .

eslint --ext .js .

What did you expect to happen?
Nothing changed with minor release

What actually happened? Please copy-paste the actual, raw output from ESLint.

Oops! Something went wrong! :(

ESLint: 7.21.0

Error: ELOOP: too many symbolic links encountered, 

Steps to reproduce this issue:

1. at root, create dir with project
2. Inside sub-dir inside folder, create symbolic link to root (possible recursion?)
3. Run linter and get above throw

Are you willing to submit a pull request to fix this bug?
Not sure where the problem lies

[mdjermanovic]

Hi @bidoubiwa, thanks for the issue!

The change in behavior is caused by #14126, which fixed #13551 and #13615.

Nothing changed with minor release

Ignoring symbolic links was a bug introduced in ESLint v7, so we decided to restore the intended behavior in a minor release.

Previous versions used to follow symbolic links, and I'm getting the same Error: ELOOP: too many symbolic links encountered with ESLint v6.8.0 if there are circular symlinks.

If you need to have circular links in your project tree, can you ignore them with the ignorePatterns config option or in the .eslintignore file?

[bidoubiwa]

This fixed my issue thanks a lot :)