Re: [PATCH] symlink nesting level change

> But I guess as major distros are 2.6.16-based, this is a good time to make
> this change.

several major distros already had this set to 8 anyway :

and your argument that this is a behavior break... holds for any
improvement and new driver to the kernel as well.. at some point it's
"if you use the new behavior, don't assume you can go back without
losing it"


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- Too many levels of symbolic links
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- Re: Too many levels of symbolic links
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- Re: Too many levels of symbolic links
  - From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
- [PATCH] symlink nesting level change
  - From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH] symlink nesting level change
  - From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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