Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265825AbUAKJtl (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 04:49:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265829AbUAKJtl (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 04:49:41 -0500 Received: from node-d-1fcf.a2000.nl ([62.195.31.207]:36224 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265825AbUAKJtj (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 04:49:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase recursive symlink limit from 5 to 8 From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Steve Youngs Cc: Linux Kernel List In-Reply-To: References: <2flllofnvp6.fsf@saruman.uio.no> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-eRV9DSo3EHnrZXXj4yR2" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1073814570.4431.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:49:30 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 970 Lines: 31 --=-eRV9DSo3EHnrZXXj4yR2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > 6 does seem pretty low. What was the reason for setting it there? Is > there a downside to increasing it? It was reduced down from 8 because it can lead to stack overflows. Recursive links like this usually point at a quite broken filesystem setup too afaik. --=-eRV9DSo3EHnrZXXj4yR2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAARwqxULwo51rQBIRAhVQAJ9I82t8vLfoGZmUkFb2dJsm6JAdHgCfSr39 c5TY6tO45AB19G9IksgMkp4= =PKPz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-eRV9DSo3EHnrZXXj4yR2-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/