Re: MAX_NESTED_LINKS
From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Aug 31 2004 - 02:39:13 EST
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 04:40, Steve French wrote:
> MAX_NESTED_LINKS seems to have been set to 5, but the comment in
> fs/namei.c indicates a larger number. Is that intentional?
yes for now; 8 overflowed stacks on several architectures.
Al Viro has a patch series is finalizing getting that merged that makes
it safe to use 8 again.
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