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Error handling for ELOOP #591

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Dominator (subd) takes great care to maximize the probability of a successful convergence. Is it prepared to deal with a malicious user playing games with cycles in the file hierarchy? I don't have the time to investigate right now but am filing this lest I forget.

See ELOOP in https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/rename.html

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