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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: arjanv@redhat.com
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: symlinks follow 8 or 5?
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:42:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <410A7A86.6030206@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091171770.2794.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>

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.

-- 
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-30 16:45 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 [this message]
2004-07-30 16:51       ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-07-30 18:16         ` Helge Hafting

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