Re: Recursion level of symlinks limitted to five?

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
9 Mar 1999 13:33:58 -0800


In article <linux.kernel.7v4snva2bj.fsf@shine.twinsun.com>,
Junio Hamano <junio@twinsun.com> wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, couldn't the resolving of symlinks all be
>done in the userland?

Only if you didn't want them to work correctly.

A libc solution requires that everyone use a libc that's been
hacked to do this, umm, method, and not everyone will hack their
version of libc to do that.

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