Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:48:39 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] |
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On Saturday 2010-07-31 20:41, Andreas Dilger wrote: >On 2010-07-30, at 12:11, Trond Myklebust wrote: >> Your Mac has a perfectly functional CIFS client, as do your Linux boxes. >> They both interoperate just fine with Samba, and would presumably >> continue to do so if someone were to decide to reuse the ctime field on >> your Samba box as storage for a create time. > >CIFS doesn't support symlinks (they just appear as the referenced >file), so I've had applications that scan the filesystem recurse >indefinitely due to symlinked directories on a CIFS share appearing >as hard-linked directories on the client. This doesn't happen when >the filesystem is accessed via NFS.
This shouldn't go on indefinitely - PATH_MAX is reached at some point.
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