From: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
To: "Brian D. McGrew" <brian@visionpro.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Too many levels of symbolic links
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 18:52:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44580CF2.7070602@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14CFC56C96D8554AA0B8969DB825FEA0012B309B@chicken.machinevisionproducts.com>
Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Because of the way our internal filesystem is setup, I'm seeing this
> error more and more.
>
> At one time, back in the early 2.4 days, I'd made a change to the kernel
> to all more links but I can't seem to find it again in 2.6. Does anyone
> know off hand where this constant is defined???
>
----
Is this what you are looking for?
include/linux/namei.h MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 5
(used in fs/namei.c, where comment claims MAX_NESTING is equal to 8)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-03 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-02 18:05 Brian D. McGrew
2006-05-03 1:52 ` Linda Walsh [this message]
2006-05-03 2:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-03 3:08 ` [PATCH] symlink nesting level change Al Viro
2006-05-04 1:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-04 6:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-04 7:19 ` Al Viro
2006-07-13 18:35 ` Tim Pepper
2006-07-13 21:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-17 20:58 ` Too many levels of symbolic links Tim Pepper
2006-05-18 19:20 ` Tim Pepper
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