From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267769AbUG3SPM (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:15:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267774AbUG3SPL (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:15:11 -0400 Received: from hermine.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:42247 "HELO hermine.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267769AbUG3SNU (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:13:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:16:36 +0200 To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Ulrich Drepper , lkml Subject: Re: symlinks follow 8 or 5? Message-ID: <20040730181636.GA13434@hh.idb.hist.no> References: <1091079278.1999.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1091171770.2794.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <410A7A86.6030206@redhat.com> <20040730165151.GA11967@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040730165151.GA11967@devserv.devel.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i From: Helge Hafting Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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