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SubjectRe: max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit?

> The maximum number of followed symlinks seems to be set to 5.
>

# grep 40 fs/namei.c
namei.c: * limiting consecutive symlinks to 40.
namei.c: if (current->total_link_count >= 40)



Jan Engelhardt
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