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DateSun, 12 Feb 2006 11:27:16 +0100 (MET)
FromJan Engelhardt <>
SubjectRe: max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit?
> The maximum number of followed symlinks seems to be set to 5.
>

# grep 40 fs/namei.c
namei.c: * limiting consecutive symlinks to 40.
namei.c:        if (current->total_link_count >= 40)


Jan Engelhardt
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