Re: MAXSYMLINKS incredibly low

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 15 2000 - 03:37:11 EST


On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Martin Buchholz wrote:

> AV> Not. There are rather nasty issues with VFS (currently _not_ in a good
> AV> state) and fixing them will make those animals very different. Passing
> AV> through the symlink may have (and in many cases has) side effects. Sorry.
>
> It seems totally wrong that merely following a symlink has undesirable
> side effects. This is either a design bug in the kernel or the
> particular filesystem.

One word: automounter. Another: Venus.

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