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DateSun, 12 Feb 2006 21:25:04 +0000
FromAl Viro <>
SubjectRe: max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit?
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 01:18:51PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Al Viro wrote:
> >>Should it be something like Glib's '20' or '255'?
> >> 
> >	20 or 255 - not feasible (we'll get stack overflow from hell).
> > 
> How much stack is used/iteration?  It appears we have a local pointer in
> __do_follow_link, and 2 passed parameters/call + call-returns ->5
> pointers/iteration.  "Forty" entries would seem to take 200 pointers or
> 800 bytes of stack space?  A limit of 20 would use 400 bytes?

Care to RTFS?  I mean, really - at least to the point of seeing what's
involved in that recursion.
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