Re: symlinks follow 8 or 5?

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Fri Jul 30 2004 - 11:47:38 EST


Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> you haven't been paying attention.... the current 2.6 kernels have a
> patch series that is fixing this for most filesystems already

Which reminds me: how can we safely determine whether this is
implemented for a local filesystem from userland? Unless we can do I
cannot change the value of SYMLOOP_MAX and people will not be able to
take advantage of the raised limit safely.

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