Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:03:31 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
       Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit?
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Hi Arjan,

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:48:15AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > I don't know exactly why recursion is used to follow symlinks,
> > which at first thought seems like it could be iterated, but
> > I've not checked the code, there certainly are specific reasons
> > for this.
> 
> the problem is not following symlinks. the problem is symlinks to
> symlink to symlink to ...

That's how I understood it, but I only thought about easy cases. Now,
I can imagine cross-FS links and I don't see an easy way to resolve
them :-/

Cheers,
Willy

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