Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Recursion level of symlinks limitted to five? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 08 Mar 1999 19:21:30 +0100 |
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schattev@imb-jena.de (Ruben Schattevoy) writes: > > 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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