Re: NFS & long symlinks = stack overflow

viro_at_parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Date: 05/16/04

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    Date:	Sun, 16 May 2004 05:55:39 +0100
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

    On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:41:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >
    >
    > 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?

    v2 has a hard limit in protocol (<= 1Kb). However, we shouldn't assume that
    server is sane...
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