On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 02:42:56PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > And no, we will *never* lift the recursion limit. Not for 1kB, not for > > 1MB. Never. > > Just to clarify: that's for the "remove restrictions completely". > Upping it to 32 or 40 would be fine. But not with allocations on the > stack. Yep. There are two restrictions - one on the total amount of symlinks encountered (40), and another on the depth of nesting (8). The latter is due to recursion issues, and with dynamic nd->stack it goes away. The former, of course, stays, for the reasons you've mentioned - it has nothing to do with the depth of recursion. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
