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Subject: Re: NFS & long symlinks = stack overflow
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Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 16:30:28 +0200
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On Sat, 15 May 2004 16:00:21 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:

> Lovely.  The real limit imposed by client (apparently not enforced, though)
> is PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 4 - 1.  What are the protocol limits?

None. An NFSv3 server can enforce an arbitrary limit on filename length,
advertised via PATHCONF, though.

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Pascal