On Mar 10 19:05, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > Again about symbolic links, here is some new inputs: > > 1) MAXSYMLINKS is no longer used in modern Cygwin's; > indeed, cygwin-1.5.25-15 uses MAX_LINK_DEPTH and > cygwin-1.7.0-42 uses SYMLOOP_MAX; both are set to 10 > (in ./winsup/cygwin/path.h for 1.5 and in > ./winsup/cygwin/include/limits.h for 1.7) > > 2) whether the filesystem is NTFS or not makes no difference; > whether the symlinks are created using winsymlinks or nowinsymlinks > makes no difference > > 3) the only clean way to make cygwin1.dll accept a chain of 32 symlinks > (instead of 10) is through recompilation
You know that _POSIX_SYMLOOP_MAX is 8 and using everything beyond that value is non-portable and just curtesy, right? Setting SYMLOOP_MAX to 10 is setting it to some arbitrary value >= _POSIX_SYMLOOP_MAX which should be sufficient in all cases. The MAXSYMLINKS value you're referring to in your original mail has nothing to do with Cygwin. You found it in newlib/libc/sys/rtems which is, no surprise I hope, RTEMS specific. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
