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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Too many levels of symbolic links
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 19:57:34 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3966u$dje$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44580CF2.7070602@tlinx.org>

Followup to:  <44580CF2.7070602@tlinx.org>
By author:    Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 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)

Wonder if it would make sense to make this a sysctl...

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-03  2:58 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
2006-05-03  2:57   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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