Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965076AbWECC6D (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 22:58:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965077AbWECC6D (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 22:58:03 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:7896 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965076AbWECC6C (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 22:58:02 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 19:57:34 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, with we do not fancy Message-ID: References: <14CFC56C96D8554AA0B8969DB825FEA0012B309B@chicken.machinevisionproducts.com> <44580CF2.7070602@tlinx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1146625054 13935 127.0.0.1 (3 May 2006 02:57:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 02:57:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 579 Lines: 15 Followup to: <44580CF2.7070602@tlinx.org> By author: Linda Walsh In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > 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) Wonder if it would make sense to make this a sysctl... -hpa - 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/