Re: Should we have MAXSYMLINKS?

Alexander Kjeldaas (astor@guardian.no)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:33:19 +0100

On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:05:50AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> Looks like we already have it. Depending on what you mean, that
> is. If you are concerned about number of nested symlinks (traversed
> without eating new components of name) - it's 5.

Btw, it's too low. In some circumstances you can't compile bind
because of this limitation.

astor

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