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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: NFS & long symlinks = stack overflow
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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...