Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

[Linda Walsh]

Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Because of the way our internal filesystem is setup, I'm seeing this
> error more and more.
>
> At one time, back in the early 2.4 days, I'd made a change to the kernel
> to all more links but I can't seem to find it again in 2.6.  Does anyone
> know off hand where this constant is defined???
>   
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Is this what you are looking for?

include/linux/namei.h    MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 5

(used in fs/namei.c, where comment claims MAX_NESTING is equal to 8)


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