I have encountered an unexpected limitation
in the maxiumum recursion level of symlinks
(2.2.2 kernel, glibc2.0, SuSE 6.0) which can
be resolved.
If I run the following script:
#!/usr/bin/tcsh
#
touch test
foreach sub ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 )
mkdir $sub ; cd $sub ; ln -s '../test' ; ls -alFL test
end
The output is as follows:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 schattev gendev 0 Mar 5 15:16 test
-rw-rw-r-- 1 schattev gendev 0 Mar 5 15:16 test
-rw-rw-r-- 1 schattev gendev 0 Mar 5 15:16 test
-rw-rw-r-- 1 schattev gendev 0 Mar 5 15:16 test
-rw-rw-r-- 1 schattev gendev 0 Mar 5 15:16 test
lrwxrwxrwx 1 schattev gendev 7 Mar 5 15:16 test -> ../test
lrwxrwxrwx 1 schattev gendev 7 Mar 5 15:16 test -> ../test
lrwxrwxrwx 1 schattev gendev 7 Mar 5 15:16 test -> ../test
lrwxrwxrwx 1 schattev gendev 7 Mar 5 15:16 test -> ../test
lrwxrwxrwx 1 schattev gendev 7 Mar 5 15:16 test -> ../test
So, how many symlinks can be nested? I acctually expected
a big number here, at least a number much greater than 5...
Is there something, I can do to increase the number of
nested symlinks? Is this a known limitation?
Thanks,
Ruben
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