Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

[Tim Pepper]

On 5/2/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> By author:    Linda Walsh <lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Is this what you are looking for?
> > include/linux/namei.h    MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 5
> > (used in fs/namei.c, where comment claims MAX_NESTING is equal to 8)
>
> Wonder if it would make sense to make this a sysctl...

There might be something in somebody's pipeline around this...Early
this year Al Viro said (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/12/104) he was
going to bump it post 2.6.16 back up to 8 to match the comment.

Al:  In the thread referenced above you'd said you would if there
wasn't any major complaint and it didn't seem like any surfaced.  Are
you still planning to up MAX_NESTED_LINKS?


Tim
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