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Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 21:41:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: NFS & long symlinks = stack overflow
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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? 

		Linus