From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit?
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:48:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139816896.2997.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060213073746.GG11380@w.ods.org>
> I don't know exactly why recursion is used to follow symlinks,
> which at first thought seems like it could be iterated, but
> I've not checked the code, there certainly are specific reasons
> for this.
the problem is not following symlinks. the problem is symlinks to
symlink to symlink to ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-13 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-11 3:31 Linda Walsh
2006-02-12 10:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-12 20:46 ` [PATCH] Use one constant to control MAX SYMLINKS in a name Linda Walsh
2006-02-12 21:16 ` Al Viro
2006-02-12 18:06 ` max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit? Al Viro
2006-02-12 19:19 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-12 19:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-12 19:48 ` Al Viro
2006-02-12 21:18 ` Linda Walsh
2006-02-12 21:25 ` Al Viro
2006-02-12 22:54 ` Linda Walsh
2006-02-13 0:08 ` Al Viro
2006-02-13 0:54 ` Linda Walsh
2006-02-13 7:37 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-02-13 7:48 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-02-13 8:03 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-02-13 8:11 ` Al Viro
2006-02-13 14:10 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-02-13 8:20 ` Helge Hafting
2006-02-12 15:16 linux
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