Re: LINK_MAX

Gabor Lenart (lgb@oxygene.terra.vein.hu)
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:34:46 +0100

On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 01:44:35AM +0900, Bruce Harada wrote:
> Just a quick question - why is LINK_MAX in limits.h restricted to
> 127? EXT2_LINK_MAX is 32000, so is there any reason for keeping
> the value of LINK_MAX so low?

As far as I know symlinks are handled by recursive mechanisms inside the
kernel, and amount of kernel stack is limited.

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