Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: LINK_MAX | Date | Tue, 09 Nov 1999 13:33:42 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <199911091756.CAA20422@ask.ne.jp>, Bruce Harada writes: +----- | >> Just a quick question - why is LINK_MAX in limits.h restricted to | >> 127? EXT2_LINK_MAX is 32000, so is there any reason for keeping | >> the value of LINK_MAX so low? | > | >As far as I know symlinks are handled by recursive mechanisms inside the | >kernel, and amount of kernel stack is limited. | | Whoops - that would explain it, I guess... +--->8
LINK_MAX refers to hard links, not symlinks. Hard links aren't recursive.
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