Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965068AbWECBwv (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 21:52:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965069AbWECBwv (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 21:52:51 -0400 Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org ([64.81.245.74]:35774 "EHLO ishtar.tlinx.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965068AbWECBwv (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 21:52:51 -0400 Message-ID: <44580CF2.7070602@tlinx.org> Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 18:52:50 -0700 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian D. McGrew" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Too many levels of symbolic links References: <14CFC56C96D8554AA0B8969DB825FEA0012B309B@chicken.machinevisionproducts.com> In-Reply-To: <14CFC56C96D8554AA0B8969DB825FEA0012B309B@chicken.machinevisionproducts.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 728 Lines: 23 Brian D. McGrew wrote: > Because of the way our internal filesystem is setup, I'm seeing this > error more and more. > > At one time, back in the early 2.4 days, I'd made a change to the kernel > to all more links but I can't seem to find it again in 2.6. Does anyone > know off hand where this constant is defined??? > ---- Is this what you are looking for? include/linux/namei.h MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 5 (used in fs/namei.c, where comment claims MAX_NESTING is equal to 8) - 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/