Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Increase recursive symlink limit from 5 to 8 | From | Peter Osterlund <> | Date | 11 Jan 2004 10:37:42 +0100 |
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Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> * Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes: > > > Linux: Symlink limit seem to be 6 path entities. > > AIX: Symlink limit seem to be 21 path entities. > > HP-UX: Symlink limit seem to be 21 path entities. > > Solaris: Symlink limit seem to be 21 path entities. > > Irix: Symlink limit seem to be 31 path entities. > > Mac OS X: Symlink limit seem to be 33 path entities. > > Tru64 Unix: Symlink limit seem to be 65 path entities. > > > I really think this limit should be increased in Linux. Not sure > > how high it should go, but from 5 to somewhere between 20 and 64 > > seem like a good idea to me. > > 6 does seem pretty low. What was the reason for setting it there? Is > there a downside to increasing it?
Search the archives for "symlink recursion":
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&w=2&r=1&s=symlink+recursion&q=b
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