Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:19:34 -0500 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit? |
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 06:06:01PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > 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.
FWIW, Fedora/RHEL4 has done this for a long time. I don't think I've ever seen any problems arise, but then symlink mazes are thankfully somewhat rare.
Dave
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