Re: Should we have MAXSYMLINKS?
Roland McGrath (roland@frob.com)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 02:12:29 -0500
There has always been an explicit check in BSD for following more than
MAXSYMLINKS links. It is not expressing an implementation limit. The
limit is there to catch infinite recursions (ln -s foo foo).
This is what the ELOOP error exists to report.
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