Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:52:55 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 16/24] link_path_walk: kill the recursion |
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 02:41:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > > > A kilobyte would suffice for 32 levels. _IF_ we go for "lift the restrictions > > on nesting completely", sure, we want to switch to (on-demand) dynamic > > allocation. > > And no, we will *never* lift the recursion limit. Not for 1kB, not for > 1MB. Never.
We still have the "no more than 40 links total" limit, so it would obviously be limited by that...
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