Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: PATCH: smart symlink loop detection. | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 1998 21:27:03 +0100 (BST) |
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> > Are there path-length limits elsewhere in the kernel? > > Yes. A PAGE_SIZE is the maximum size of any path (and that includes the > ending '\0'). This shows in many places, like "get_name()" and > "sys_getcwd()", and it is acceptable to consider this a real limit.
This has a peculiar property in enabling 8K and 32K page machines to create an ext2fs other systems cannot read 8)
> We need the limit anyway, to make our stack size limited.
Indeed but would min(4096, PAGESIZE) be better ?
Alan
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