From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: symlinks follow 8 or 5?
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:16:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040730181636.GA13434@hh.idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040730165151.GA11967@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 06:51:53PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:42:46AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> >
> > 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...
Well, one can test it from userland - make a tempdir and create progressively
longer link chains until it fails. Quirky, sure.
Helge Hafting
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-30 18:15 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
2004-07-30 18:16 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
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