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obsolete: avoid infinite loop from obs-cycle in divergence (issue4126)

As for other currently in place cycle detection, arbitrarily cut the first
obsolescence link that create a cycle avoiding the infinite loop. This will have
to be made more deterministic in the future but we do not really care right now.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import errno, os, sys

for f in sys.argv[1:]:
    try:
        print f, '->', os.readlink(f)
    except OSError, err:
        if err.errno != errno.EINVAL:
            raise
        print f, 'not a symlink'

sys.exit(0)