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From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Symlink indirection
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:11:25 +0100
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On Friday 13 December 2002 16:06, Andrew Walrond wrote:

Hi Andrew,

> Is the number of allowed levels of symlink indirection (if that is the
> right phrase; I mean symlink -> symlink -> ... -> file) dependant on the
> kernel, or libc ? Where is it defined, and can it be changed?

fs/namei.c

 if (current->link_count >= 5)

change to a higher value.

So, the answer is: Kernel :)

ciao, Marc
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