Messages in this thread | | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:02:50 +0200 (MEST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH+discussion] symlink recursion |
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> Could we allow deeper recursion if we did it by hand? Sure. > Are there any real advantages in 15 levels of recursion > over 5 levels of recursion? I don't see any.
There is a real advantage in a max depth that is an arbitrary parameter that anybody can pick suitably, above a max 5 that one cannot increase without danger of kernel stack overflow.
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