More than 5 symlinks

Urs Thuermann (thuerman@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:15:43 +0100

Linux-2.1.x and 2.2.0-prex only follow 5 symlinks. This is not enough
in some environments. I patch each kernel I install to follow 20
symlinks which is the same as in SunOS and Solaris.

I'd like to see this patch make it into 2.2.0

--- linux/fs/namei.c.orig Wed Dec 23 21:52:39 1998
+++ linux/fs/namei.c Thu Jan 14 10:17:00 1999
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@
struct inode * inode = dentry->d_inode;

if (inode && inode->i_op && inode->i_op->follow_link) {
- if (current->link_count < 5) {
+ if (current->link_count < 20) {
struct dentry * result;

current->link_count++;

urs

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