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SubjectRe: Should we have MAXSYMLINKS?
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 08:18:02PM -0500, peeter joot wrote:

> It is an unsafe patch (ie: I coded up a sysctl to raise it at run
> time), and we have to live with the fact that this could
> potentially cause kernel stack to run out if we raise it too high
> -- not very good, but we don't really have an option if we want to
> build on Linux:(

If only root and set this sysctl (as one would expect), I don't think
it's a problem. You might want to submit this in the hope it goes if
for 2.2.x -- otherwise we'll just have to manually change the limit
of 5 to 20 or something.





-cw

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