Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: LINK_MAX | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 09 Nov 1999 20:56:04 +0100 |
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Bruce Harada <bruce@ask.ne.jp> writes:
|> >> Just a quick question - why is LINK_MAX in limits.h restricted to |> >> 127? EXT2_LINK_MAX is 32000, so is there any reason for keeping |> >> the value of LINK_MAX so low? |> > |> >As far as I know symlinks are handled by recursive mechanisms inside the |> >kernel, and amount of kernel stack is limited. |> |> Whoops - that would explain it, I guess...
LINK_MAX has nothing to do with symlinks. That's the maximum number of *hard* links an inode can have.
Andreas.
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