From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267311AbUHaHiM (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:38:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267324AbUHaHiM (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:38:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:41439 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267311AbUHaHiK (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:38:10 -0400 Subject: Re: MAX_NESTED_LINKS From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Steve French Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1093920028.2445.2.camel@smfhome.smfdom> References: <1093920028.2445.2.camel@smfhome.smfdom> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-NuJybdExvIvu6hK2VuOH" Organization: Red Hat UK Message-Id: <1093937883.2797.7.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:38:03 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-NuJybdExvIvu6hK2VuOH Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 04:40, Steve French wrote: > MAX_NESTED_LINKS seems to have been set to 5, but the comment in > fs/namei.c indicates a larger number. Is that intentional? yes for now; 8 overflowed stacks on several architectures. Al Viro has a patch series is finalizing getting that merged that makes it safe to use 8 again. --=-NuJybdExvIvu6hK2VuOH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBNCrbxULwo51rQBIRAk3fAKCPWvA6khtjyPbLTRPdx/OJK3pzTQCeNZCZ O6VE/P/IOFPrNV6Act91lrY= =MJba -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-NuJybdExvIvu6hK2VuOH--