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On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:31:07PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > The maximum number of followed symlinks seems to be set to 5. > > This seems small when compared to other filesystem limits. > Is there some objection to it being raised? Should it be > something like Glib's '20' or '255'? 20 or 255 - not feasible (we'll get stack overflow from hell). 8 - probably can be switched already; anybody who hadn't converted their fs ->follow_link() to new model will just lose; in-tree instances are already OK with that and out-of-tree folks had at least half a year of warning. Unless anybody yells right now, I'm switching it to 8 in post-2.6.16. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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