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SubjectRe: LINK_MAX
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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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