Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932379AbWBLK1w (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 05:27:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932378AbWBLK1w (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 05:27:52 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:23245 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932379AbWBLK1v (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 05:27:51 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:27:16 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linda Walsh cc: Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit? In-Reply-To: <43ED5A7B.7040908@tlinx.org> Message-ID: References: <43ED5A7B.7040908@tlinx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 456 Lines: 17 > The maximum number of followed symlinks seems to be set to 5. > # grep 40 fs/namei.c namei.c: * limiting consecutive symlinks to 40. namei.c: if (current->total_link_count >= 40) Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/