Re: [PATCH] Increase recursive symlink limit from 5 to 8

[Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>]

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 08:01, Steve Youngs wrote:
> * 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?

I think we cannot set this value much higher due to constraints in
kernel stack size, and this limits maximum recursion levels.