Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Increase recursive symlink limit from 5 to 8 | From | Steve Youngs <> | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:01:01 +1000 |
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* 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?
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