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From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
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Subject: Re: [PATCH+discussion] symlink recursion
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> Could we allow deeper recursion if we did it by hand? Sure.
> Are there any real advantages in 15 levels of recursion
> over 5 levels of recursion? I don't see any.

There is a real advantage in a max depth that is an arbitrary
parameter that anybody can pick suitably, above a max 5 that
one cannot increase without danger of kernel stack overflow.

Andries
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