> First of all, I should make it clear that in practice, this is
> probably even *less* important than the previous technical objection.
> But it is, still, a *technical* problem, however minor.
>
>
> The limitation can be found in fs/ext2/symlink.c, in the function
> ext2_follow_link(), where it says:
>
>
> if (current->link_count > 5) {
> iput (dir);
>
> iput (inode);
>
> return -ELOOP;
>
> }
>
>
>
> I'm a little fuzzy on how this is triggered, though.
Just a technical note :-) : This code is only present in 2.0 kernels,
in 2.2 it's gone (together with the limit).
[...]
> I *believe* that's how it works, but for the actual details, well,
> UTSL. :-)
Your believing is correct, as a quick look into the sources prooves.
current->link_count (associated with a process) is increased whenever
a symlink target is looked up and decreased afterwards.
Roman
