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SubjectRe: Recursion level of symlinks limitted to five?
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schattev@imb-jena.de (Ruben Schattevoy) writes:
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> So, how many symlinks can be nested? I acctually expected
> a big number here, at least a number much greater than 5...

5

The reason for the small number is that the routine that parses the
path name in the kernel does actually recurse on symlinks. Kernel
stack space is very limited (~6K - stack space for interrupt handlers
on 2.2). To avoid overflowing the kernel stack the maximum nesting
has to be limited. AFAIK there are no plans to change it.

-Andi

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