Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:11:51 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit? |
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:03:31AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Arjan, > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:48:15AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > I don't know exactly why recursion is used to follow symlinks, > > > which at first thought seems like it could be iterated, but > > > I've not checked the code, there certainly are specific reasons > > > for this. > > > > the problem is not following symlinks. the problem is symlinks to > > symlink to symlink to ... > > That's how I understood it, but I only thought about easy cases. Now, > I can imagine cross-FS links and I don't see an easy way to resolve > them :-/
The real problem is that there is no promise that resolution of a symlink consists of following some path. It's a very common case, all right, but not the only one. And trying to take that into account makes iterative schemes very ugly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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