On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:11:59AM +0200, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > -> Makes the wait loop no longer endless - but causes it > > to bail out (and emit some warnings ahead of time) after > > a couple of thousand consequituve EINTRs. > Placing a 'magic number' on how many EINTRs is 'failure' doesn't > seem right. -- justin
Although, things like these have been done many times in the past. Especially in BSD. As long as the number is high enough to where there doesn't seem to be an obvious reason to go above that, then I do not see why not. As for example, the limit of 7 dereferences on a symlink to prevent symlink infinite loops. -- Sander van Zoest [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Diego, CA, US http://Sander.vanZoest.com/
