Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:15:21 +0100 (GMT) | | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | | Subject | Re: ELOOP help needed |
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On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Lou Grinzo wrote:
> I'm trying to track down a specific detail about how Linux handles > circular link references. I know that certain system calls will return > [-]ELOOP when this condition is detected, but I need a little more > information: > > I've seen descriptions that say only a certain number of links will be > followed before Linux will assume it has a circular reference and give > up and return ELOOP. Is this true? If so, what's the limit? Is the > limit hard- coded, or can it be overridden programmatically?
It's hard-coded. Apparently, go much higher than 5 and the kernel stack can overflow.
Matthew.
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