Re: Recursion level of symlinks limitted to five?

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:52:04 +1300


On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 09:34:03PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I cannot find such a requirement in my copy of Single Unix v.2.

Nor can I

> There is a POSIX requirement that at least 8 hard links are allowed
> to a single file, but that has nothing to do with symlinks.

As Peter Waltenberg <peterw@dascom.com> pointed out, there doesn't
appear to be a requirement for more than 5... looks like I was wrong.

-cw

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