Re: [PATCH] Increase recursive symlink limit from 5 to 8
From: Felipe Alfaro Solana (felipe_alfaro_at_linuxmail.org)
Date: 01/11/04
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To: Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:10:28 +0100
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 08:01, Steve Youngs wrote:
> * Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:
>
> > Linux: Symlink limit seem to be 6 path entities.
> > AIX: Symlink limit seem to be 21 path entities.
> > HP-UX: Symlink limit seem to be 21 path entities.
> > Solaris: Symlink limit seem to be 21 path entities.
> > Irix: Symlink limit seem to be 31 path entities.
> > Mac OS X: Symlink limit seem to be 33 path entities.
> > Tru64 Unix: Symlink limit seem to be 65 path entities.
>
> > I really think this limit should be increased in Linux. Not sure
> > how high it should go, but from 5 to somewhere between 20 and 64
> > seem like a good idea to me.
>
> 6 does seem pretty low. What was the reason for setting it there? Is
> there a downside to increasing it?
I think we cannot set this value much higher due to constraints in
kernel stack size, and this limits maximum recursion levels.
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