Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751115AbWEQU6Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 16:58:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751117AbWEQU6Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 16:58:25 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]:20356 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751115AbWEQU6Z convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 16:58:25 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=XD6X5y3wd5zqf3ctoKU4JF5og95D/GxVHpVSOPnJatKsla85FtVO0ifM9mPJSuvNk0cficSbp5/5NloFw5UXWI173m6LkyXGsw+9GZFXag4RfCpvaqaWHFaOoHbd9wLpx3jSGMO6WZ3kYxO/m4ms/lP4HGBHKk+HEF6IDSEXuxE= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 13:58:23 -0700 From: "Tim Pepper" To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Linda Walsh" , "Brian D. McGrew" , "H. Peter Anvin" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <14CFC56C96D8554AA0B8969DB825FEA0012B309B@chicken.machinevisionproducts.com> <44580CF2.7070602@tlinx.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 57a865920451bb38 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 944 Lines: 23 On 5/2/06, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > By author: Linda Walsh > > 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... There might be something in somebody's pipeline around this...Early this year Al Viro said (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/12/104) he was going to bump it post 2.6.16 back up to 8 to match the comment. Al: In the thread referenced above you'd said you would if there wasn't any major complaint and it didn't seem like any surfaced. Are you still planning to up MAX_NESTED_LINKS? Tim - 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/