Problem with mktex* generated files when running latex on GCP cloud run

[Norbert Preining]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Karl Berry wrote:
> cause kpse not to descend, namely if nlinks != 2; see "Subdirectory
> expansion" in the kpathsea manual, and kpathsea/{elt-dirs.c,config.h}.

Yup, that is it. From one of the commit messages of overlayfs:

>  - st_nlink for merged directories set to 1, this is an "illegal"
>    value that normal filesystems never have but some use it to
>    indicate that the number of subdirectories is unknown.  Utilities
>    (find, ...) seem to tolerate this well.

....

Norbert

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