From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: symlinks follow 8 or 5?
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:51:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040730165151.GA11967@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <410A7A86.6030206@redhat.com>
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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...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-30 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-29 5:34 symlinks follow 8 or 5? FabF
2004-07-30 3:14 ` Tim Connors
2004-07-30 7:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-07-30 16:42 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-07-30 16:51 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-07-30 18:16 ` Helge Hafting
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