From: "Tim Pepper" <lnxninja@us.ibm.com>
To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Linda Walsh" <lkml@tlinx.org>,
"Brian D. McGrew" <brian@visionpro.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Too many levels of symbolic links
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 13:58:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eada2a070605171358r1fea2c62u641b6308e78aa1e4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3966u$dje$1@terminus.zytor.com>
On 5/2/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> By author: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
> > 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...
There might be something in somebody's pipeline around this...Early
this year Al Viro said (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/12/104) he was
going to bump it post 2.6.16 back up to 8 to match the comment.
Al: In the thread referenced above you'd said you would if there
wasn't any major complaint and it didn't seem like any surfaced. Are
you still planning to up MAX_NESTED_LINKS?
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-17 20:58 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
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 ` Tim Pepper [this message]
2006-05-18 19:20 ` Too many levels of symbolic links Tim Pepper
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