Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:18:35 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Should we have MAXSYMLINKS? |
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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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