From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit?
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:03:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060213080331.GH11380@w.ods.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1139816896.2997.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Hi Arjan,
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:48:15AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > I don't know exactly why recursion is used to follow symlinks,
> > which at first thought seems like it could be iterated, but
> > I've not checked the code, there certainly are specific reasons
> > for this.
>
> the problem is not following symlinks. the problem is symlinks to
> symlink to symlink to ...
That's how I understood it, but I only thought about easy cases. Now,
I can imagine cross-FS links and I don't see an easy way to resolve
them :-/
Cheers,
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-13 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-11 3:31 max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit? Linda Walsh
2006-02-12 10:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-12 20:46 ` [PATCH] Use one constant to control MAX SYMLINKS in a name Linda Walsh
2006-02-12 21:16 ` Al Viro
2006-02-12 18:06 ` max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit? Al Viro
2006-02-12 19:19 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-12 19:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-12 19:48 ` Al Viro
2006-02-12 21:18 ` Linda Walsh
2006-02-12 21:25 ` Al Viro
2006-02-12 22:54 ` Linda Walsh
2006-02-13 0:08 ` Al Viro
2006-02-13 0:54 ` Linda Walsh
2006-02-13 7:37 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-02-13 7:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-13 8:03 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2006-02-13 8:11 ` Al Viro
2006-02-13 14:10 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-02-13 8:20 ` Helge Hafting
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2006-02-12 15:16 linux
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