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From: Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase recursive symlink limit from 5 to 8
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:01:01 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <microsoft-free.87isjj0y1e.fsf@eicq.dnsalias.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2flllofnvp6.fsf@saruman.uio.no> (Petter Reinholdtsen's message of "Sun, 11 Jan 2004 02:03:01 +0100")

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* Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:

  >   Linux:         Symlink limit seem to be 6 path entities.
  >   AIX:           Symlink limit seem to be 21 path entities.
  >   HP-UX:         Symlink limit seem to be 21 path entities.
  >   Solaris:       Symlink limit seem to be 21 path entities.
  >   Irix:          Symlink limit seem to be 31 path entities.
  >   Mac OS X:      Symlink limit seem to be 33 path entities.
  >   Tru64 Unix:    Symlink limit seem to be 65 path entities.

  > I really think this limit should be increased in Linux.  Not sure
  > how high it should go, but from 5 to somewhere between 20 and 64
  > seem like a good idea to me.

6 does seem pretty low.  What was the reason for setting it there?  Is
there a downside to increasing it?

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-11  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-07 23:12 [PATCH] Increase recursive symlink limit from 5 to 8 Petter Reinholdtsen
2004-01-11  1:03 ` Petter Reinholdtsen
2004-01-11  7:01   ` Steve Youngs [this message]
2004-01-11  9:37     ` Peter Osterlund
2004-01-11  9:49     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-16  0:45       ` GOTO Masanori
2004-01-16  0:56         ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-16  1:25         ` viro
2004-01-16 15:46           ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-16  3:08         ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-11 12:10     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana

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