On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:42:46AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 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.

well actually it can't be per userland; it's just that we're almost at the
point where all filesystems are switched to the new infrastructure so that
the global constant can be bumped to 8 again...