From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, torvalds@transmeta.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@math.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH+discussion] symlink recursion
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:02:50 +0200 (MEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <UTC200206190702.g5J72oj08454.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl> (raw)
> Could we allow deeper recursion if we did it by hand? Sure.
> Are there any real advantages in 15 levels of recursion
> over 5 levels of recursion? I don't see any.
There is a real advantage in a max depth that is an arbitrary
parameter that anybody can pick suitably, above a max 5 that
one cannot increase without danger of kernel stack overflow.
Andries
next reply other threads:[~2002-06-19 7:03 UTC|newest]
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2002-06-19 7:02 Andries.Brouwer [this message]
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2002-06-19 20:01 Andries.Brouwer
2002-06-18 22:19 Andries.Brouwer
2002-06-18 23:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-19 7:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-06-19 11:48 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-06-19 14:44 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-19 16:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-19 18:18 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-06-19 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-19 19:14 ` David Mosberger
2002-06-19 22:06 ` David S. Miller
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