Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:03:31 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit? |
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Hi Arjan,
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:48:15AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > I don't know exactly why recursion is used to follow symlinks, > > which at first thought seems like it could be iterated, but > > I've not checked the code, there certainly are specific reasons > > for this. > > the problem is not following symlinks. the problem is symlinks to > symlink to symlink to ...
That's how I understood it, but I only thought about easy cases. Now, I can imagine cross-FS links and I don't see an easy way to resolve them :-/
Cheers, Willy
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