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SubjectRe: MAX_NESTED_LINKS
FromArjan van de Ven <>
DateTue, 31 Aug 2004 09:38:03 +0200
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 04:40, Steve French wrote:
> MAX_NESTED_LINKS seems to have been set to 5, but the comment in
> fs/namei.c indicates a larger number.  Is that intentional?

yes for now; 8 overflowed stacks on several architectures.
Al Viro has a patch series is finalizing getting that merged that makes
it safe to use 8 again.

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