Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:16:36 +0200 | Subject | Re: symlinks follow 8 or 5? | From | Helge Hafting <> |
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On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 06:51:53PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:42:46AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > > > Which reminds me: how can we safely determine whether this is > > implemented for a local filesystem from userland? Unless we can do I > > cannot change the value of SYMLOOP_MAX and people will not be able to > > take advantage of the raised limit safely. > > well actually it can't be per userland; it's just that we're almost at the > point where all filesystems are switched to the new infrastructure so that > the global constant can be bumped to 8 again...
Well, one can test it from userland - make a tempdir and create progressively longer link chains until it fails. Quirky, sure.
Helge Hafting
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