Re: patch: new sysctl to remove hardcoded ELOOP limit

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:36:54 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Peeter Joot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Currently 5 symlinks will be followed before ELOOP is returned. Today
> I had a need for this to be 6 on my system. Rather than just hacking the
> value and recompiling it I thought it made more sense to have a sysctl so
> this is adjustable.

Lovely little patch!!

One comment: isn't there a /proc/sys/fs in 2.1.x? And if so wouldn't the
value be better suited there?

Cheers
Chris

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