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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NFS & long symlinks = stack overflow
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 05:55:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040516045538.GR17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405152136380.25502@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:41:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 15 May 2004, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > 
> > Yes. The following patch (backported from the NFSv4 code) should do the
> > right thing...
> 
> Why isn't this needed for nfsv2, which has similar code? 

v2 has a hard limit in protocol (<= 1Kb).  However, we shouldn't assume that
server is sane...

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-16  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1W7yE-3lZ-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1W7S5-3Am-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-15 14:30   ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-05-15 14:53     ` viro
2004-05-15 17:37       ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-15 20:19         ` Oleg Drokin
2004-05-16  4:41         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-16  4:55           ` viro [this message]
2004-05-16 22:20             ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-15 13:21 Oleg Drokin
2004-05-15 13:53 ` viro
2004-05-15 17:26   ` Trond Myklebust

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