From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit? Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:03:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20060213080331.GH11380@w.ods.org> References: <43ED5A7B.7040908@tlinx.org> <20060212180601.GU27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> <43EFA63B.30907@tlinx.org> <20060212212504.GX27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> <43EFBCA9.1090501@tlinx.org> <20060213000803.GY27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> <43EFD8BF.1040205@tlinx.org> <20060213073746.GG11380@w.ods.org> <1139816896.2997.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linda Walsh , Al Viro , Linux-Kernel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:8467 "EHLO willy.net1.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751222AbWBMIGu (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:06:50 -0500 To: Arjan van de Ven Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1139816896.2997.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.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